KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia -- Agnes Keith, an American author who lived nearly a century ago in Sandakan, in the British protectorate of North Borneo -- now the Malaysian state of Sabah -- had a way with words. She described a 1937 party to celebrate the coronation of Britain's King George VI thus: "There are the pagan tribes of Borneo and the ladies of [the colonial town], drinking tea and eating cakes together ... And there in that scene too fantastic for fiction breathes the real heart of a non-racial empire that mankind could, if he would, build today."
Exploring Sabah, Borneo's 'land below the wind'
Hiking, diving and wildlife watching in Malaysia's easternmost state
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