300 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



journey ; some of them to battle for many days against the 

 swiftly flowing river, and after that again for many days to 

 pole their boats through the flashing rapids and over the 

 lovely quiet reaches, where the rare gleams of sunlight 

 break through the overarching forest ; until, coming to their 

 own upland country, where anxious wives and children 

 are waiting, they will spread even in the remotest highlands 

 the news of the white man's big boat that goes of itself 

 against the stream, of the great boat-race, and of how they 

 came wellnigh to a fearful slaughtering, and how they 

 swore peace and goodwill to all men, and how there should 

 be now peace and prosperity through all the land, for the 

 great white man who had come to rule them had said 

 it should be so, and the gods had approved his words. 



The foregoing account of the journey to the 

 Madang country and of the subsequent events 

 would constitute the last chapter of any history of 

 the pacification of the Baram. Since the time of 

 those incidents, there has been no serious disturbance 

 of the peace ; and there seems to be good reason 

 to hope that, so long as the Rajah's government 

 continues to be conducted along the same lines, 

 there will be no recrudescence of savagery. The last 

 case of fighting on any considerable scale occurred 

 in 1894, when Tama Bulan's people, resenting the 

 offensive conduct of bands of Sea Dayaks who had 

 penetrated to their neighbourhood in search of 

 jungle-products, turned out and took the heads of 

 thirteen of the Dayaks. It was only after prolonged 

 negotiation that the Dayaks were persuaded to 

 resign their hopes of a bloody revenge and to 

 accept a compensation of 3000 dollars, which was 

 paid by the Kenyahs at the Rajah's order. 



It has not always been possible to make peace 

 prevail by wholly peaceable procedures. The Baram 

 was fortunate in that the Sea Dayaks had not 

 established themselves anywhere within its borders. 

 In the Rejang, on the other hand, large numbers of 

 them were allowed to settle, coming in from the 



