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of bearing to the Punans their stolen property and some presents ; 

 lest the Punans should echo the well-known saying of the suspicious 

 Trojan, " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes," Balin takes with him as 

 a token of genuine peace a white tunic of Dr. Hose's ; needless to 

 say there is no chance of the Punans mistaking a garment of such 

 Gargantuan proportions for the property of anyone, other than the 

 original owner. On the 3oth the entire party of ruffians having 

 been secured and the fine paid up almost to the uttermost farthing 

 Dr. Hose returned to Sibu with his prisoners and spoil ; the eleven 

 desperate characters were lodged in gaol and the remainder with 

 some of their relations have been placed across river within range 

 of the fort guns and Munan will be responsible for their good 

 behaviour in the future. To employ a term in use amongst gold 

 miners, the whole " clean-up " occupied eight days or to be more 

 exact, fifteen days from the date of the murder to the return to Sibu 

 of the punitive party. It would hardly be seemly for one who holds 

 no executive office in the Government of Sarawak to criticise or 

 even comment on the conduct of the whole affair, but it is difficult 

 to refrain from remarking that the decision and rapid action of 

 Dr. Hose created an enormous impression amongst the Dayaks at 

 and around Kapit ; the disaffected and lukewarm were convinced 

 that the arms of law and order in Sarawak were far from paralysed, 

 whilst the loyal cordially approved of every step taken and zealously 

 lent their aid in bringing the guilty to justice, Pengulus Munan and 

 Mroum with all their followers being especially prominent." 



No information concerning Plates XVII. and XX. was found 

 among Mr. Shelford's notes except that conveyed in the respective 

 titles "The start of a Head-hunting Expedition" and " Punan 

 heads," but Dr. Hose's recollection, together with the above article 

 from The Sarawak Gazette, makes it clear that the heads were those 

 recovered from the murderers and photographed before they were 

 buried. Dr. Hose believes that the expedition was one sent out 

 from Kapit by him to arrest the murderers. If this be so, it 

 was a Head-recovering rather than a Head-hunting Expedition. 

 Mr. Shelford took these photographs when he was staying with 

 Dr. Hose at Kapit. E. B. P. 



NOTE 21, p. 268. The word for the Supreme Being had been left 

 blank by the author. Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., has kindly sent me 

 the following statement from The Natives of Sarawak and British 

 North Borneo. H. Ling Roth, I. (1896), p. 165. "Tupa is so called 

 from tupa the Dyak form of the Malay word tumpa, to forge as a 



