398 NATIVE BOAR-HUNT. 



As we were reposing after dinner, in our boats, a 

 party of Balows came off in a canoe for medical advice. 

 I was fortunate in being able to give relief in a bad case 

 of Entropion, by removing a transverse flap of skin and 

 muscle from the eyelid, a proceeding which seemed to 

 give much satisfaction to the spectators; and, as usual in 

 these cases, presents of fruits and fowls were forced upon 

 my acceptance. Among these unfortunates was a man 

 with that tubercular form of Lepra, called Elephantiasis : 



" corpore adeso, 



Posterius, tremulas super ulcera tetra tenentes 

 Palmas, horriferis adcibat vocibus Orcum." * 



Leaving the Batang Lupar on the 4th of September, we 

 returned to Sarawak, and shortly after, ascended the river 

 Lundu, and visited the town or campong of Tungong, on 

 that river, inhabited by the friendly Sibnowan Dyaks, one 

 of the mildest and most amiable of the tribes to be found 

 in the Sarawak territory. Here I had the pleasure of ac- 

 companying His Excellency, Rajah Brooke, the Hon. Capt. 

 Kepple of the Dido, and some others, in an excursion, 

 when a party of Sibnowan Dyaks was assembled to hunt 

 the Wild Boar in native fashion. Headed by Kalong, 

 eldest son of Sejugah, Orang Kaya, or chief of the village, 

 we proceeded in canoes to the hunting-ground, near the 

 mouth of the river, acco'mpanied by some numbers of a 

 small, fox-like breed of dogs, very active, bold and saga- 

 cious ; and after paddling for some distance, landed 

 beneath the shade of the dark-leaved Casuarinas, and 

 other forest trees, where the sand was marked with the 

 foot-prints of hogs, and covered with the tracks of deer. 

 * Lucretius, De Nat. Rerura. Lib. v. 1. 993. 



