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had goue on the war-path, without the sanction of the Rajah, and had 

 taken heads, and had barely refrained from killing Mr. Hose who had 

 gone up to put a stop to his marauding. 



He is a man of about forty-five, well built, but not muscular in ap- 

 pearance, about five feet six inches tall, his face is broad, the cheek- 

 bones somewhat high, the eyes wide apart — owing perhaps to his hav- 

 ing his eyebrows shaved, they appear very wide apart ; his lips are 

 thin and his mouth large but well shaped, and when he smiles it 

 reveals two rows of regular but blackened teeth. His ears, according to 

 the custom of his people, are pierced in the lobes, and by means of a 

 copper ring, inserted in early childhood, are so elongated that the lobe 

 almost touches the shoulder ; his ears are also perforated in the upper 

 part to permit the insertion of a wild cat's tooth ornamented ; this is, how- 

 ever, only inserted for full dress ; on ordinary occasions he wears therein 

 a plug of wood about half an inch in diameter. These looped and perfo- 

 rated ears serve, in the absence of clothes, the purpose of pockets, and 

 are used to carry cigarettes or even boxes of matches. His hair is 

 straight and black, shaved in a straight line from his temples round his 

 head, but allowed to grow long at the back ; it is not unlike a 

 Chinaman's queue unbraided. The skin of the Kayans and Kenuiahs, 

 two closely allied tribes, is not yellow, but somewhat darker than a 

 Chinaman's, and they have none of the characteristics of either the thick- 

 lipped African negro nor the bushy, krinklj^ hair of the Papuans, nor 

 have they the almond eyes of the Mongolians. 



As for costume, on ordinary occasions they wear nothing but a loin 

 cloth either of bark fibre or of red or white cotton, bought from the 

 Chinese traders in the Bazaar (the Malay name for a trading post). 

 On their heads they wear a close-fitting pointed cap made of thin strips 

 of rattan (or rotan, as they call it) or bamboo dyed red and black and 

 woven into pretty checkered patterns ; when they are exposed to the 

 blazing sun they often exchange this skull cap for a broad flat disc made 

 of dried palm leaves and tied to their head. 



I describe Tamabulan thus somewhat at length because he is a full- 

 blooded and typical Kenuiah, and as he is, so are most of his people. 

 They almost universally depilate the hairs of the face, and only occasion- 

 ally are mustaches or beards to be seen ; when they are allowed to 

 grow they are more than likely to be restricted to one side of the face, in 

 charming irregularity. 



When the peace meeting was over, and the pigs' livers had determined 

 omens propitiously (I think that Tamabulan in his inmost heart thought 

 that the whole thing was foolish and unnecessary, but then the Dyaks 

 were impressed and he was conscious that in any event he was able to 

 overpower them, so on the whole he was well pleased), we returned to 

 Mr. Hose's house, which is a low one-storied frame building, thatched 

 with palm leaves and surrounded with a broad veranda, whereon are scat- 

 tered in confusion, characteristic of a naturalist, all sorts of specimens, 



