CHAPTER VI. 



SEA-DYAKS TRIBES OF LUNDU, SAKAREAN, AND SAREBAS DYAK 



HOUSES LANGUAGE, RELIGION, AND SUPERSTITIONS THE MANANG, 



OR VILLAGE DOCTOR DRESS OF DYAKS AND OF THEIR WOMEN 



SEVERAL OF THEIR CHIEFS ANECDOTE OF ONE HEAD-TAKING 



GRATITUDE TO MR. BROOKE PIRACY OF SEA-DYAKS ITS SUPPRES- 

 SION DYAK LAXITY OF MANNERS THEIR LOVE OF THEIR CHIL- 

 DREN DUTIES AND LABOURS OF THE MEN AND WOMEN CAPTIVE 



DYAK CHILDREN COOKERY OF THE DYAKS THEIR FUNERALS, AND 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 



IN pursuance of the plan it is our intention to 

 follow in describing the inhabitants of the island in 

 the order in which they are best known to us, which 

 will nearly correspond also with their relative political 

 importance, the Dyaks next present themselves to our 

 notice, sufficient we trust having been said to give the 

 reader a general idea of the Malays of the coast 

 of Borneo, and to leave on his mind a more favourable 

 impression of the character of some of them than the 

 nation generally has hitherto enjoyed. 



The Dyaks appear to be divided by many customs and 

 usages naturally into two classes, which have been called 

 by Mr. Brooke, Land and Sea Dyaks ; the latter appear 

 to have been the more savage and powerful, the former 

 the more quiet and easily managed. Amongst the sea 

 Dyaks the practice of preserving the heads of their 

 enemies, anciently instituted that they might be kept 



