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After spending a day in visiting villages in the 

 lower Tinjar, the largest tributary of the Baram, 

 we resumed the journey up-river and reached the 

 village of Long Tamala. There we were joined 

 by the chiefs of the two houses Tama Aping Nipa 

 and Tama Aping Kuleh, and were most hospitably 

 entertained by the former. On the following 

 morning we again steamed up-river, having added 

 to our train these two Kenyah chiefs, each with a 

 boat's crew of fighting men, they having agreed 

 to make the whole journey with us. After stopping 

 at several villages at which the Resident's services 

 were in request for the settlement of disputed 

 questions, in the afternoon we reached Long Tajin, 

 a big Kayan village, and were welcomed by Juman, 

 the chief, and his wife Sulau, a woman of strikingly 

 handsome and refined features and graceful aristo- 

 cratic manner (PL 31). She is the daughter of the 

 late Aban Jau, who was for many years the most 

 powerful chief of the Tinjar Sebops. He had long 

 resisted the advances of the Resident, and had 

 submitted to the Rajah's government only after a 

 long course of patient persuasion. He had regarded 

 himself as the up-river Rajah, and had never ceased 

 to regret the old state of affairs. ** I'm an old man 

 now," he told the Resident, '' but if I were as salt as 

 I used to be, the Rajah would not have taken 

 possession of the Baram without a struggle." 

 Another of his many picturesque sayings seems 

 worth recording: ''Your Rajah may govern the 

 down-river people ; they are inside the Sultan's 

 fence and he had the right to hand them over. But 

 over us he had no authority ; we are the tigers of 

 the jungle and have never been tamed." He had 

 frequently threatened to attack the fort ; and when 

 he had sent to the Resident a message to that 

 effect in the usual symbolic language, the latter's 

 only reply had been to go up to his house with two 



