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fishing, three months previously had returned from Sama- 

 rinda, where he had spent one year in prison for having 

 been implicated in a minor way in this crime, while the 

 main offenders were serving labor terms of six years in 

 Sorabaia, Java. 



This report was confirmed by a Dutch officer whom I 

 met a month later and who came from Apo Kayan. The 

 attacking Kenyahs were eighty in number, of whom ten 

 were punished. The affair took place in 191 2 at a dis- 

 tance of six hours, going down-stream, from Long Nawang. 

 Though head-hunters are known to travel wide and far, 

 and distant Apo Kayan is not too remote for them, 

 nevertheless to me, as well as to Chonggat, the risks 

 seemed unfounded; however, there remained no alterna- 

 tive but for all of us to return to Long Pelaban. 



