Appendix 



From Ida Pfeiffer's book Meine zweite Weltreise^ vol. i, 

 p. 1 1 6. (Vienna, 1856.) 



" I must confess that I would gladly have journeyed 

 longer among the free Dayaks. I found them wonderfully 

 honourable, gentle and modest ; indeed in these respects 

 I put them above any people that I have as yet become 

 acquainted with. I could leave all my things about, and 

 go away for hours together, and never was the least thing 

 missing. They begged me occasionally for many an object 

 they saw, but immediately gave way when I explained that 

 I needed it myself. They were never over-pressing or 

 tiresome. It will be said, in denial of this, that the beheading 

 of corpses and preservation of skulls does not look exactly 

 like gentleness ; but it must be remembered that this sad 

 custom is chiefly the result of rude and ignorant superstition. 

 I stick to my opinion, and as a further proof, would cite 

 their domestic and thoroughly patriarchal mode of life, 

 their morals and manners, the love that they have for 

 their children, and the respect their children show to 

 them." 



A Rodiya Boy 



Ernst Haeckel in his Visit to Ceylon, describes the devo- 

 tion to him of his Rodiya serving-boy at Belligam near 

 Galle. The keeper of the rest-house there was an old 

 man whom Haeckel, from his likeness to a well-known 

 head, called by the name of Socrates. And Haeckel con- 

 tinues : *' It really seemed as though I should be pursued 

 by the familiar aspects of classical antiquity from the first 

 moment of my arrival at my idyllic home. For as Socrates 

 led me up the steps of the open central hall of the rest- 

 house, I saw before me, with uplifted arms in an attitude 



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