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IT WAS only slightly over 100 years ago that the capital of Brunei was on land. Prior to that, Bandar Seri Begawan or Pekan Brunei as it was then known, was a city on water. !Peter Blundell in his book City of Many Waters (published in 1923) stated that the "town was unique, the only one in the world built almost entirely over the water, and the Brunei(an)s were justly proud of it. They were folks who live a semi-aquatic life, and their methods of living, household arrangements, family life, and town government, adapted as they had been to life over the water". !When did the capital move to dry land? The official record was that of the first British Resident, McArthur, who wrote in his report the following words, "I want a clean, dry village with suburbs of kampong houses. I also want to discourage building on dry land".

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