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began at once to put up a shed similar to those of the 

 Dayaks, but usually their shelters for the night are of the 

 rudest fashion, and as they have only the scantiest of 

 clothing they then cover themselves with mats made from 

 the leaves of the fan-palm. 



On the Upper Mahakam I later made acquaintance 

 with some of the Punans who roam the mountainous 

 regions surrounding the headwaters of that river. Those 

 are known under the name Punan Kohi, from a river of 

 that name in the mountains toward Sarawak. The mem- 

 bers of the same tribe further east in the mountains of 

 the Bulungan district are called Punan Lun, from the River 

 Lun, to whom the present individuals probably belonged. 

 According to the raja, there are two kinds of Punans here, 

 and his statement seems to be borne out by the variations 

 in their physical appearance. 



These nineteen nomads had black hair, straight in 

 some cases, wavy in others. Most of them had a sem- 

 blance of mustache and some hair on the chin. Their 

 bodies looked perfectly smooth, as they remove what little 

 hair there may be. Some of them had high-arched noses. 

 The thigh was large, but the calf of the leg usually was 

 not well-developed, though a few had very fine ones; and 

 they walked with feet turned outward, as all the Dayaks 

 and Malays I have met invariably do. The only garment 

 worn was a girdle of plaited rattan strings, to which 

 at front and back was attached a piece of fibre cloth. 

 Although dirty in appearance, only one man was afl^icted 

 with scaly skin disease. Visits to the hill-tops are avoided 

 by them on account of the cold, which they felt much in 



