178 The Gardens of the Sun. [ch. vm. 



ever, ended suddenly. She usually walked through the 

 clearing every day into the forest beyond to fetch in 

 fire-wood. One day she did not return as usual, and a 

 search was made for her along the paths in the neigh- 

 bourhood without success. Some men who were return- 

 ing from gutta collecting, however, found her lying 

 beneath a large tree, and beside her was a large branch, 

 recently broken off. It was supposed that this branch 

 had accidentally fallen, and struck her, so causing her 

 death. 



Modifications of the " cheng," or calabash pipes, are 

 made both by the Kayans, on the Baram river, and also 

 by the Dusun villagers, near Kina Balu. There are dis- 

 tinct differences between the instruments as made by 

 each tribe. That from the Baram consists of seven 

 pipes ; six arranged in a circle around a long central 

 one, all seven being furnished with a free reed at the 

 base, where they are inserted in a calabash-gourd. Holes 

 are cut in the six outer pipes for fingering ; the central 

 pipe is, however, an open or drone-pipe, the tone being 

 intensified by fixing a loose cap of bamboo on the upper 

 end. It is played by blowing air into the neck of the 

 gourd, or by drawing the breath according to the effects 

 desired. The Dusun pipes are formed of eight pipes, 

 four short, and equal in length, and four long and 

 unequal. Heeds are cut at the lower end in all the 

 pipes, but the fingering is performed on the ends of the 

 four equal short pipes, there being no holes cut in the 

 pipes for this purpose, as in the Kayan instrument. 



I brought home examples of both varieties ; and these 

 are now in the Veitchian Museum at Chelsea. Two or 

 three varieties of flutes are made, also an instrument 

 resembling the old wooden flageolet, so common in 

 England before the advent of the tin whistle. 



