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ceptacles made of iron-wood, those belonging to one fam- 

 ily being put in the same container. 



Some of the Dayaks were much preoccupied with 

 preparations for the Bundang ceremony, which was 

 postponed again and again. They encouraged me to 

 participate in the festivities, representing it as a 

 wonderful affair. I presented them with money to buy 

 a sack of rice for the coming occasion, and some of them 

 went at once to Puruk Tjahu to purchase it. Having 

 overcome the usual difficulties in regard to getting 

 prahus and men, and Mr. Demmini having recovered 

 from a week's illness, I was finally, early in November, 

 able to move on. Several people from our kampong went 

 the same day, and it looked as if the feast were really 

 about to take place. 



We proceeded with uneventful rapidity up-stream on 

 a lovely day, warm but not oppressively so, and in the 

 afternoon arrived at Bundang, which is a pleasant little 

 kampong. The Dayaks here have three small houses 

 and the Malays have five still smaller. A big water- 

 buffalo, which had been brought from far away to be 

 sacrificed at the coming ceremonial, was grazing in a 

 small field near by. The surrounding scenery was at- 

 tractive, having in the background a jungle-clad moun- 

 tain some distance away, which was called by the same 

 name as the kampong, and which, in the clear air against 

 the blue sky, completed a charming picture. We found 

 a primitive, tiny pasang-grahan, inconveniently small 

 for more than one person, and there was hardly space on 

 which to erect my tent. 



