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Parchment-style illustration of Bruneian Nakhoda Manis denying his mother from ship deck on Brunei River.

The Stone Ship of Brunei

In the water village of Kampong Ayer, where houses stood on tall stilts above the Brunei River and wooden walkways connected the community like a spider’s web, there lived a poor widow named Dang Ambon and her young son, Nakhoda Manis. Their home was a simple dwelling with weathered planks and a roof that had been patched many times. The

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