92 DOGS, CATS, DOMESTIC FOWLS. 



pigs, which they keep in large quantities. The Dyak 

 pig very much resembles the breed of China, being 

 short and broadly made little animals ; when fattened 

 and kept by the Chinese, who purchase them from the 

 Dyaks, their flesh is valued at the European tables 

 on the west coast, where neither beef nor mutton is 

 procurable except at rare intervals. The Dyaks have also 

 a small kind of currish looking dog, which is very useful 

 to them in the jungle, in hunting the wild hog, the deer, 

 and the palandok : these little animals are of a reddish 

 colour in general, though they vary as do the dogs of 

 Europe. The Chinese settlers have a larger breed, 

 which, when young and well fattened, form an 

 esteemed dish at their tables. 



The cats of the Malays have been mentioned, and 

 described by many writers, their peculiar tails having 

 always attracted attention. The joints of the tail are 

 crooked, so that the tail appears, as it were, tied in a 

 knot, nor can the animal itself straighten it : this 

 breed being mixed with the European for some gene- 

 rations does not entirely lose this remarkable deformity. 



Of domestic poultry both ducks and fowls are kept 

 by the Malays, the latter only by the Dyaks. Mr. 

 Brooke has attempted to introduce others, and has 

 for this purpose distributed many geese among these 

 people. He has also endeavoured by the introduction 

 of the larger Cochin China breed of fowls to improve 

 the small race now kept by the Dyaks. Pigeons are 

 occasionally, though rarely, seen amongst the Malays ; 

 but I have never seen them in the Dyak villages. 



