Two years in the jungle - the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo (1904) (14584294048)

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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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m the shoulders to the chin hkea small hoop-skirt. The Limbang Muruts Hve in long houses, one of wliich con-tained fifty doors, and the long hall was closed in and filled withfireplaces. The Kadyans, who are few in number and live only aboutBrunei, are the only clan of the aborigines who have taken kindlyto the haunts of civilization and choose to dwell near the city, andmany even within it. Although like the Idaans, they learned theiragriculture from the Chinese during the present centur\-, the influ-ence of the Malays has been sufficient to convert them nearly all toMohammedanism. 458 TWO YEARS IN THE JUNGLE. Before turning our attention to the Sea Dyaks, the variouatribes may be placed before the reader in a summarized form inthe following manner, to show their comparative rank as viewedfrom different standpoints : Morally. Mentally. Physically. 1st. Hill Dyaks Sea Dyaks Sea Dyaks 2d. Sea Dyaks Hill Dyaks Kyans 3d. Mongol Dyaks Kyans Hill Dyaks 4th. Kyans Mongol Dyaks Mongol Dyaks,
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CHAPTEE XXXVm. THE SEA DYAKS. Habitat. —Number. —Sub-tribes. —Their Physique.—Sea Dyak Women.—TheilDress and Ornaments.—The Men.—Their Weapons.—War Boats.—Fight-ing Qualities.—Head-taking and Head-hunting.—A Mania for Murder.—Houses and House-life of the Sea Dyaks.—Communal Harmon).—Daily Occupations. — Amusements. — Music-making. — Feasts.—Gentle-manly Drunkenness—High Social Position of Women.—The Doctrine ofFair Play.—Strict Observance of th. Rights of Property.—A Race of Debt-Payers.—Morality without Religion.—Infrequeney of Crime.^Dyak Dis-eases.—Mode of Burial.—The Future of the Race.—Can ChristianityBenefit the Dyaks ? The tribe of Sea Dyaks has always been celebrated for the braveryand enterprise of its wan-iors, their independence and resistance ofoppression in all forms, and their success in maintaining both of-fensive and defensive sub-tribal alliances. In Sarawak they occupyaU the teiritory between the Sadong and Rejang