Kepaksian Sekala Brak

""It is probably within but a very few centuries that the south-west coast of this country has been the habitation of any considerable number of people; and it has been still less visited by strangers, owing to the unsheltered nature of the sea thereabouts, and want of soundings in general, which renders the navigation wild and dangerous for country" vessels; and to the rivers being small and rapid, with shallow bars and almost ever a high surf. If you ask the people OF THESE PARTSfrom whence they originally came they answer, from the hills, and point out an inland place near the great lake from whence they say their forefathers emigrated: and further than this it is impossible to trace""."