Chapter IV: The Land Dayaks

Visit to the Left-hand Branch of the Sarawak River--Attack
of Peguans--Sarawak River--Capture of English Ship--The
Durian Fruit--Iron-wood Posts--Rapids--Rapid of
the Corpse--Mountains--Village of San Pro--Lovely
Scenery--Head-house--Cave--Upper Cave--Unfortunate
Boast--Pushing up the Rapids--Story of the Datu
Tamanggong--Invulnerable Men--How to become one--Grung
Landing-place--Sibungoh Dayaks--Dayak Canoes--Lovely
Scenery--Uses of the Bambu--Fish--Sharks in the Upper
Waters--Repartee--Pigs Swimming--Farmhouses in
Trees--Floods--Suspension Bridges--Chinese Traders--Dress of
Land Dayaks--System of Forced Trade--Interesting Tribe--Story of
the Murder of Pa Mua--The Trial--Painful Scene--Delightful
Bathing--Passing the Rapids--Walk to Grung--Dayak
Paths--Village of Grung--Warm Reception--Ceremonies--Lingua
Franca--Peculiar Medicine--Prayer--Sacred Dance--Sprinkling
Blood--Effect of former System of Government--Language 125

CHAPTER V.

LAND DAYAKS OF SIRAMBAU.--THEIR SOCIAL LIFE.

Madame Pfeiffer--Chinese Village--Chinese
Maidens--Sirambau--Ascent of the Mountain--Difficult
Climbing--Forests of Fruit Trees--Scenery--Sirambau
Village--Houses--The “Look-out”--Scenery--Head-houses--Orang
Kaya Mita--His modest Request--Sir James Brooke’s
Cottage--Natural Bath-house--Chinese Gold Workings--Tapang
Trees--Social Life of the Land Dayaks--Ceremonies at
a Birth--Courtship--Betrothment--Marriage--Burial--Graves--The
Sexton--Funeral Feast--Children--Female
Chastity--Divorces--Cause of Separations--Anecdote 152