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my little cabin, nor anywhere else, the situation appeared 

 disquieting, but the captain, a small-sized Malay and a 

 good sailor, as all of that race are, reassured me by saying 

 that it was only the glass for controlling the steam-power 

 that was broken. After a while the escape of steam was 

 checked and a new glass was put in. 



The old craft kept up its reputation for rolling exces- 

 sively, and I was glad when finally we entered the smooth 

 waters of the Sampit River. We stopped for a couple of 

 hours at a small kampong, where I made the acquain- 

 tance of a Polish engineer in the government's service, who 

 was doing some work here. He told me that thirty years 

 ago, in the inland country west of Kotawaringin, he had 

 seen a young Dayak whose chest, arms, and legs, and most 

 of the face, were covered with hair very similar in colour to 

 that of the orang-utan, though not so thick. The hair 

 on his face was black, as usual. There were no Malays 

 at that head, but many Dayaks. I have heard reports 

 of natives in the Schwaner mountains, who are said to 

 have more hair on the body than Europeans, of a brownish 

 colour, while that on the head is black. Controleur 

 Michielsen,* in the report of his journey to the upper 

 Sampit and Katingan in 1880, describes a certain Demang 

 Mangan who had long, thin hair on the head, while on the 

 chest and back it was of the same brown-red colour as 

 that of the orang-utan. His arms were long, his mouth 

 large and forward-stretching, with long upper lip, and his 

 eye glances were shy. Among the Dayaks he was known 

 as mangan (red). 



• Controleur W. J. Michielsen, Verslag ciner Reis door de boven distrikten 

 der Sampit en Kalingan rivieren inMaart en April, 1880. 



