DYAK DEFENSIVE WARFARE. 221 



on all occasions sacrificing his own interest to the good 

 of the settlement of Lundu, which, though under the 

 government of a Dyak, is also a Malayan Town. 



In defensive warfare the Dyaks surround their 

 village with a high palisading of palm or other trees, 

 and about all the woods in the neighbourhood are 

 planted 'ranjows,' or small sharp-pointed bamboos, 

 which, on account of the mass of decaying vegetables, 

 are with difficulty detected, and are in consequence, 

 together with pit-falls and other contrivances, of great 

 annoyance to a bare-legged invader. As the sea- 

 Dyaks only go on cruises in the fine season, or from 

 April to October, their boats are taken to pieces 

 during the bad monsoon, by cutting the rattans adrift 

 which hold the planks together. 



Forrest notices an instance in which a fleet of the orang 

 Tedong, a piratical people of the east coast of Borneo, and 

 who very much resemble the sea-Dyaks, being shut up in 

 a bay by a Spanish cruiser, which probably hoped they 

 would surrender, they evaded their enemy by cutting 

 the rattans of their boats, which are of similar con- 

 struction, and carrying away the planks through the 

 jungle ; this can very easily be done by the crews of 

 the boats. The sea-Dyaks, during the wet season, 

 lay up the planks of their boats in sheds until the 

 returning fine monsoon invites them again to venture 

 on the ocean. As these planks cost the Dyaks, who 

 are unacquainted with the use of the saw, or any other 

 instrument for forming them but the 'biliong' or adze 

 of the Malays (which can also be used as a chopper, 



