292 DYAK VILLAGES. 



has its rise on a hill, about six miles inland of the left- 

 hand bank of the Sarawak river : on it is a village con- 

 taining sixty doors, and immediately below the mouth 

 of the stream, and on the right-hand bank, is the small 

 village of Pasir Bruang, containing fifteen houses. 



Following the stream, we pass successively the Battu 

 Bidi, a limestone hill, in which antimony of the richest 

 quality is procured by the Malays, and the great cave, 

 called Lubong Angin, or the wind hole, in which a few 

 swallows' nests are procured. These are both on the same 

 bank of the river with the village last named. The 

 next Dyak houses are placed on the high left bank, near 

 Bow, where the greatest gold works are carried on, and 

 which are situated on the opposite side of the river from 

 that occupied by the Dyaks. 



This village, at which is an excellent bridge, is called 

 Subah, and contains forty houses : the four last-named 

 villages all belong to the Sow tribe of Dyaks, whose 

 principal station is on a hill called Rat, at the base of 

 which flows the Sungei, or Ayer Tubah, a tributary of 

 the Sarawak, which discharges itself on the left-hand side 

 about four miles below the landing-place to the Bow 

 gold mines. The village at Rat contains sixty houses, 

 and has been the most oppressed, or amongst the most 

 oppressed, of the Hill Dyaks of this country. They 

 succeeded in defeating the Sakarran Dyaks, who, with 

 a party of Malays, headed by Sereib Jaffir, were 

 shamefully vanquished ; but on a second attempt, were 

 more successful, as they surprised the Sow village, 

 which was then on a mountain of the same name, 



