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IDEAS OF THE SOUL 



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two days, came to life again and lived for two years, 

 during which he described to his friends the country 

 of the dead of which he had thus obtained a glimpse ; 

 and this knowledge has been preserved by the tribe. 

 The beliefs and traditions of the various tribes 

 in regard to the other world seem to have been 

 confused through the intercourse between them, so 

 that it is not possible to mark off clearly what 



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Bawan^ Matei Muong 

 Lake o-F suxdde^ 



Bawong D^hia r~> 

 JSiood.where Sie pe4pU ga^ ^ Ado Mas, 



vhoareTcaUdinbaUle.aUJlfwsi x , f . . . 



Lake of Blood/.where fhei 



v/omsn. Miho obit irv chUdbu 



/rang /ad»n^ apui jupan 



Apo La^gan 



^^i.H.^Ji^ 



SiAprermBtin^ 



Fig. 78. 



Stcmibrdi Otogt Estatt,£oi 



features properly belong to each of the tribes. The 

 general features are similar with all the peoples. 

 The Kenyah story is very similar to that of the 

 Kayans, though the names of the various places are 

 different, and they usually conceive the first part of 

 the soul's journey as being made by boat on the 

 river. 



Tama Kajan Odoh, the Madang chief whose line 

 of descent from Balingo is given on p. 12, vol. ii., made 

 us a rough map of the land of the shades (Fig. "]%) 



