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With little knowledge of the people of Sabah, there were actually several agreements that pertain to the territory we now call Sabah in the late 1870s.

One between the British company and the Sultan of Brunei, for the western coast of Sabah,

and another one between the British company and the Sultan of Sulu, for the northern and the eastern regions of Sabah,

which actually pretty much makes up the majority of the North Borneo territory.

Now, to make matters even more confusing,

the legal documents which were involved in the 1878 agreement

were either intentionally or unintentionally poorly worded,

with the result that it is still a matter of considerable legal debate today.

You know, whether the agreement constituted a lease of the land,

aka renting the land from the Sultan of Sulu,

or an outright cession or sale of the land in the form of a lease in perpetuity.

And as a result of all of this, from the 1880s onwards and up until the present day,

as we've seen in the recent headlines,