AND THE SAKARRAN AND SAREBAS TRIBES. 169 



known of the products, gold is not one of them, nor 

 have I seen specimens of any other metals which have 

 been extracted from their soil. Small paths intersect 

 the forests between the villages of all the Sakarran and 

 Sarebas tribes, so that a constant communication is 

 easily kept up, and as their practices and interests are 

 identical, the good understanding which has long 

 existed between these powerful tribes of savages is 

 likely to be maintained, as they probably very well 

 know that a quarrel between them would only end in 

 the ruin of both, their enemies being so numerous, and 

 anxious to revenge upon them the many injuries they 

 have sustained at their hands. 



Though the Dyaks generally build their villages near 

 the river for the convenience of launching their boats, 

 there are many of them situated so high towards the 

 sources of the streams as to be unnavigable from the 

 rapids; he people inhabiting such join the boats belong- 

 ing to-'some village situated lower down, and are thus 

 ei'iibled to participate in their piratical practices. The 

 villages of the sea Dyaks are formed upon one plan, 

 the houses being, if the tribe be small that is to say, of 

 about sixty families all collected under one roof. Each 

 house has its separate door, which opens into a broad 

 verandah covered in by a continuation of the pitch of 

 the roof, and which answers all the purposes of a 

 street, being floored with laths of bamboo or nibong, 

 and on a level with the flooring of the houses. One 



o 



terrace of such buildings is often 500 or 600 feet 



