no PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



whom would be a great crime, and to be carefully 

 avoided.") 



Of similar cases among other tribes of guardian- 

 animals appearing to men in dreams and claiming 

 their respect and gratitude, we must mention the 

 case of Aban Jau, a powerful chief of the Sebops, a 

 Klemantan subtribe. He had hunted and eaten 

 the wild pig freely like all his fellow-tribesmen, until 

 once in a dream a wild boar appeared to him, and 

 told him that he had always helped him in his 

 fighting. Thereafter Aban Jau refused, until the 

 day of his death, to kill or eat either the wild or 

 the domestic pig, although he would still consult 

 for omens the livers of pigs killed by others.^ 



We have described above (vol. ii., p. 76) how a 

 Kayan may become blood-brother to a crocodile in a 

 dream, and may thereafter be called Baya (crocodile), 

 and how in this way one Kayan chief had come to re- 

 gard himself as both son and nephew to crocodiles, 

 and how he believed that they brought him success 

 in hunting and carried him ashore when (in a dream) 

 he had fallen into the river. The cousin of this 

 chief, too, regarded himself as specially befriended 

 by crocodiles because his great-grandfather had 

 become blood-brother to one in a dream. So it is 

 clear that the members of the family to which these 

 young men belong are likely to continue to regard 

 themselves as related by blood to the crocodiles, and 

 bound to them by special ties of gratitude. 



In another case we saw how all the people of 

 one household regard themselves as related to the 

 crocodiles and specially favoured by them, explaining 



* Aban Jau possessed a large curiously shaped pig's tusk which he wore on 

 his person in the belief that any firearm fired at it would not go off. It is 

 probable that his belief in this charm was connected with his belief in the 

 dream - pig. The belief was very genuine, until in a moment of excessive 

 confidence he hanged the tusk upon a tree and invited one of us to fire at it. 

 The tusk was shattered. Aban Jau said nothing ; but presumably a process 

 of disintegration began in his mind ; for after some hours he remarked that 

 his charm had lost its power. 



