342 THE REJANGS AND KADYANS. 



as has been previously stated, the remainder of this 

 tribe of Milanowes has its houses. 



The Rejangs are very expert in catching fish, and 

 their large establishment for this purpose at the mouth 

 of their river exports large quantities, in a dried state, 

 along the coast and to the interior of the island, to 

 which their fine stream gives them easy access. All the 

 tribes are said to practice slavery, but the other vices of 

 the Malays are rare among them. Each person contents 

 himself with one wife, and polygamy and concubinage 

 are unknown among them. They appear to be amongst 

 the most simple and easily governed of all the inhabi- 

 tants of the island ; and if good government be secured 

 to them, their industry will develop the resources of 

 the country they inhabit, with but trifling assistance from 

 without. The new settlement at Labuh-an will confer 

 a great boon upon their towns by regulating the amount 

 of taxation to be paid to the Borneo government, and 

 preventing repetition of the extortions of which they 

 have been too frequently the subjects. 



The Kadyans are the native inhabitants of that part 

 of the island in the immediate neighbourhood of Bruni, 

 the capital. Many of their tribes are converted to the 

 Mahometan religion ; and they have, for the most part, 

 adopted the customs of the Malays. Like the other 

 tribes, they preserve the skulls of their enemies, but 

 the practice is now much disused, having given way to 

 the Malayan influence. They are a quiet agricultural 

 people, much oppressed : they are compelled to culti- 

 vate pepper, and search for bees'-wax and camphor for 



