Sabah under chartered company rule
The police force of the British North Borneo Trading Company rode on water buffaloes, the most common form of transport at that time.
Most of the territory of North Borneo (present-day Sabah) was first acquired from Brunei by American adventurers in 1865. It was then sold to a consul of Austria-Hungary before being acquired by Alfred Dent, a Hong Kong merchant, who set up the British North Borneo Company to administer the territory. Governing proved difficult because of the lack of revenue, compounded by opposition from indigenous people. Only slowly was infrastructure built so as to aid development.
- Information in the full article includes
- The advent of company rule
- The establishment of the administration
- Anti-Company revolts
- Development