pontianak

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Examples

• How strange it must be living in a town like Pontianak, in West Borneo, where the equator passes through the main street!

• The Kapuas valley has so far yielded the largest quantity, and Pontianak is, for diamonds, the principal port of export.

• About the same time a British expedition was also sent against Sambas and a post established at Pontianak.

• There is great virtue for instance, in the long hair of the Pontianak, the cruel sprite that haunts the waringin tree.

• She adventured among the Dyaks, and journeyed westward to Pontianak, and the diamond mines of Landak.