Chapter II: Social Life of the Sea Dayaks

Ceremonies at the Birth of a Child--Infanticide--Desire for
Children--A Talkative and Sociable People--Great Concord
in Families--Method of Settling Disputes--Marriage
Ceremonies--Pride of Birth--Chastity--Punishment of
Indiscreet Lovers--Bundling and Company-keeping--Love
Anecdotes--Separations--Division of Household
Duties--Flirting--Divorce--Burials--Religion--Belief in a
Supreme Being--Good and Evil Spirits--The
Small-pox--Priests--Some dress as
Women--Mourning--Sacrifices--Human Sacrifices--Unlucky
Omens--Reconciliation--Belief in a Future State--The other
World--Dayaks Litigious--Head-feast--Head-hunting--Its
Origin--Horrible Revenge--Small Inland Expeditions--Cat-like
Warfare--Atrocious Case--Large Inland
Expeditions--War-boats--Edible Clay--Necessity for a
Head--Dayaks very Intelligent--Slaves--Objections to Eating
certain Animals, or Killing others--Change of Names--Degrees
of Affinity within which Marriages may take
place--Sickness--Cholera--Manufactures--Agriculture--Method
of taking Bees’ Nests--Lying
Heaps--Passports--Ordeals--Language 47