Two years in the jungle - the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo (1904) (14584292558)

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Title: Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Hunting East Indies -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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self in a Chinese traders boat bound for Kuching. IVIi.Eng Quee gave me at parting a number of valuable ethnologicalspecimens which he had svu*reptitiously gotten together for mybenefit. I left the little kampong with keen regret, and have ever sincelooked back upon it longingly. The days I spent on the Sa-dong, the Simujan, at Padang Lake and the Sibuyau seem like astrange, deHghtful dream of a sojourn in another world, where everyface and form and every object, animate and inanimate, was strangeand strangely interesting, and with the sweet there mingles no bit-ter. It was a lotus-eaters life that I led for four delightful months,free from the aggravations which beset all but jungle life. The deep, mellow boom of the big gong in the veranda ofthe government house, on which the policemen struck the hourswith measured stroke, and its echo, rolling through the surround-ing forest like a wave, will always sound in my ears. I love tothink that the hours are struck there now just the same.
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1. Kyan war shield. 2. Sea Dyak spear. 3. Sea Dyak fiddle. 4. Sheath of Parong latok. 5. Parong latok. (Hill Dyiiks.) 6. Biliong, to use as an adzo. 7. Biliong, to nse as an axe. 8. Sumpitan. used by Foonans. 9. Juah, or back-basket. DYAK WEAPONS, UTENSILS, ETC. (Drawn from specimens collected by the Author.) 10. Sii-ih basket. 11. Betel knife, to accompany No. 10.VI. Chunani box, 13 Sibuyau Dvak measuring-stick. (Used in setting pig traps.) 14. Sibnvau Dyak hat. 15. Model of Sea Dyak boat, with kart-jang roof. CHAPTER XXXYn. TEE ABORIGINES OF BORISrEO. Civilization an Exterminator of Savage Races.—Stability of the Dvaks.—TlieSurvival of the Fittest. —The Typical Dyak.—Four Great Tribes. —JA*!Kyans.—Their Strength and Distribution.—Tribe Misnamed Milanau.—General Characteristics.—Mechanical Skill.—Modes of Warfare.—Aggres-siveness.—Cannibalism of certain Sub-tribes.—Tattooing.—Ideas of aFuture State.—Human Sacrifices.—Houses.—Tite Ilill Dyaks.—Y)\&a