Borneo in "Vendee" (Location)

Borneo, off the coast of southeast Asia, is the third largest island in the world. It becomes part of the story because, in a passage from the typescript that Joseph Blotner restores to the text of "Vendee" he publishes in Uncollected Stories, Bayard mentions "a book at home about Borneo" as his reference for skinning someone like Grumby (115).