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peoples are to be found ; and the nature of his 

 duties as Resident Magistrate necessitated a constant 

 and intimate intercourse with all the tribes of the 

 districts, and many long and leisurely journeys into 

 the far interior, often into regions which had not 

 previously been explored. Such journeys, during 

 which the tribesmen are the magistrate's only com- 

 panions for many weeks or months, and during 

 which his nights and many of his days are spent in 

 the houses of the people, afford unequalled oppor- 

 tunities for obtaining intimate knowledge of them 

 and their ways. These opportunities have not 

 been neglected ; notes have been written, special 

 questions followed up, photographs taken, and 

 sketches made, throughout all this period. 



In the years 1898-9 the second collaborator 

 (W. McD.) spent the greater part of a year in the 

 Baram district as a member of the Cambridge 

 Anthropological Expedition, which, under the 

 leadership of Dr. A. C. Haddon, went out to the 

 Torres Straits in the year 1897. During this visit 

 we co-operated in collecting material for a joint- 

 paper on the animal cults of Sarawak ; ^ and this 

 co-operation, having proved itself profitable, sug- 

 gested to us an extension of our joint program to 

 the form of a book embodying all the information 

 already to hand and whatever additional information 

 might be obtainable during the years that one of us 

 was still to spend in Borneo. The book therefore 

 may be said to have been begun in the year 1898 

 and to have been in progress since that time ; but 

 it has been put into shape only during the last few 

 years, when we have been able to come together 

 for the actual writing of it. 



During the year 1899 Dr. A. C. Haddon spent 

 some months in the Baram district, together with 

 other members of the Cambridge Expedition (Drs. 



^ Published in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xxxi. 



