A letter from Lundu (19 October 2004).

A letter from Lundu (19 October 2004). Otto Steinmayer P. O. Box 13 94500 Lundu, Sarawak Lundu is a town in the Kuching Division of Sarawak, Malaysia. The Tanjung Datu National Park is located here. The Gunung Gading National Park is just 5-minutes drive from Lundu town. Malaysia The official name of our kampong is "Stunggang Dayak" butI constantly drop the "Dayak" as our Kpg. Stunggang is thereal Kpg. Stunggang, the site of the huge Rumah O.K.P. Jugah where JamesBrooke For the American journalist, see .The Rajah of Sarawak, Sir James Brooke, KCB, LL.D (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868) was a British statesman. His father Thomas Brooke was English; his mother Anna Maria was born in Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Scottish peer first touristed to a longhouse longhouseTraditional communal dwelling of the Iroquois Indians until the 19th century. The longhouse was a rectangular box built out of poles, with doors at each end and saplings stretched over the top to form the roof, the whole structure being covered with bark. back in 1839. We orang Stunggangheld our biggest and most boisterous bash in decades last Fridayevening. The occasion of this gawai was the 151st (and a half or so)anniversary of the arrival of Rev. William Henry Noun 1. William Henry - English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)Henry Gomes and theestablishment of Christianity and the Anglican Church in Lundu inJanuary 1853. Preparation took months. We held extra gotong royongs to cut thegrass, repair the road, build steps from the church to the hall, paintwalls. Since I am the resident scholar here, Father Jackson Jarauassigned me to researching and writing up the history of the Mission andof Christchurch. I rummaged and scratched all over for material. My wifeNusi was in charge of the cake, which we ordered from Kuching. Christchurch is our local church, and the present concrete buildingis its third incarnation, after Father Gomes's first atap-roofedchurch, then the belian one built by Bakih anak Negi in 1863. By darkthe church was packed. Then a cheery service, Father Jarau preached asermon on the history of the Mission, and everybody listenedattentively, naturally enough, because everybody in the room (except me)was a descendent of one original convert or another. Rev Gomes'sgreat-grandson, George Gomes, who works at SESCO, was there, beamingwith delight; but unfortunately none of the many Zehnders, descendentsof Rev. John Lewis Zehnder, our second priest, showed up. Two Ibanpolitical higher-ups attended. They had been at daggers drawn in thenewspapers but here they had to be reconciled for an evening. AndrewJika anak Saban got a round of applause after Fr. Jarau told us how hehad cleverly prevented the registers and papers from being destroyed bythe Japanese. The baptismal register goes back to the very beginnings,and is a gold mind for the genealogy-conscious, which we all are. After the last hymn there was a quick grace, and we poured out todig into Verb 1. dig into - examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill"poke into, probepenetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" the food. 1 only got one plate, I was so busy selling copies ofmy Christchurch History. When everybody was full, we all grabbed ourStella Artois This article is about Stella Artois lager. For the tennis competition that the company sponsors, see Queen's Club Championships. Stella Artois (IPA pronunciation: [ˈstɛ. and listened to the kampong band and the singer with theukelele u��ke��le��le?n.Variant of ukulele. from Kuching, and after enough Stella we began dancing. Nusi andI left at 3:00 a.m., while the jogetting showed no signs of ending. This was the most genuine kind of gawai, and everyone knew it andwas happy for it. We had religion and thanksgiving, and remembrance andreverence of ancestors-my son's if not mine--and lots of food,beer, and fun. The only difference from a gawai of 200 years ago wasthat the feat's patron was now Jesus Christ Jesus Christ:see Jesus. Jesus Christ40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11]See : AscensionJesus Christkind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. . The other hot event here in Sarawak also involved history, in atragic way. In the wee hours of Thursday 7 October the cables of the oldsuspension bridge suspension bridge:see bridge. at Satok over Sungai Sarawak parted and the roadwayand the aqueducts went to the bottom of the river. This old bridge,built in 1926 by PWD PWD PasswordPWD Print Working Directory (Unix command)PWD Public Works DepartmentPWD Present Working DirectoryPWD Person with a DisabilityPWD Portuguese Water Dog (breed)engineer A.S. Lowe, was the marvel of Kuching inits time, and remained in use and beloved well after the big concretebridge was put up. Kuchingites poured out their feelings of regret inthe papers and over the radio, and of dismay that the poor thing had notbeen properly maintained. A good many people were left without water.The bridge meant a lot to the orang Lundu also, those of us who had beenin and out of Kuching, or lived there, over the decades. And bridgecollapses especially concern us, who are watching the new cantileverbridge slowly go up over the Batang Kayan. We want it to stay safe. Just to put the final nifty detail on my perception that so many ofthe past was con-ring together during this last week, while I wasplaying the organ during the anniversary service--we of course sang"Mansang kitai kristian" (Onward Christian Soldiers)--I notedfor the first time the author of that hymn, S. Baring-Gould, the sameSabine Baring-Gould The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 500 separate publications. who co-wrote A History of Sarawak under its TwoWhite Rajahs with Charles Bampfylde.