CHAPTER X. 



THE KYANS THEIK COMMERCE THE KYANS FOES OF THE DYAKS 



TATTOOING KYAN DRESS IMPUTED CHARACTER OF THE 



KYANS THEIR WAR DRESSES THEIR WEAPONS THE SAMPIT- 



AN THEIR SWORDS AND KNIVES THEIR COURAGE THEIR 



SHIELDS HUMAN SACRIFICES KYAN MODE OF TRANSACTING 



BUSINESS THE MILANOWES AND THE MERI PEOPLE AN 



ALBINO THE REJANS, KADYANS, AND OTHER TRIBES THE 



SEA-GIPSIES OPENINGS FOR BRITISH ENTERPRISE PROBABLE 



SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS BY DR. HOOKER. 



OF the remaining tribes, differing from each other suf- 

 ficiently to be classed under separate titles, the Kyans, as 

 the people most numerous and powerful, first claim our 

 attention. Personally, little is known of their divisions by 

 the English, though the Netherlands' (India) Government 

 has been supplied by its officers with many particulars 

 concerning those who inhabit the south and south-east of 

 the island. These people, differing however in various 

 customs, are found on the great rivers Banjar, Pasir, and 

 Coti, and probably on all the rivers of the eastern coast. 

 The Orang Tedong are, most. likely, a tribe of the great 

 Kyan division of the nations of the island. On the north 

 and north-west parts of the island, they are found in 

 the interior of the Bintulu, Barram, Rejang, and other 

 great rivers, as far west as the country of the Sarebas 

 Dyaks, but they only occupy the inland parts, at a 



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