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travelled in this way for three months, mostly on horse- 

 back, through the Sonora Desert, and felt stronger for it. 

 It is my opinion that overfatigue, excess in eating, or 

 alcohol are the causes of sunstroke. I have met only 

 one man who, like myself, discards cover for the head — 

 Doctor N. Annandale, of the Indian Museum in Calcutta. 

 Although in our present state of knowledge I agree with 

 him that it is unwise to advise others to do likewise in 

 the tropics, I emphatically recommend less fear of the 

 sun in temperate regions, always on the supposition that 

 one leads a healthy and sane life. 



The Long-Glats came from Apo Kayan, and estab- 

 lished themselves first on the River Glit, a tributary from 

 the south to the River Ugga, which again is an affluent 

 to the River Boh, the outlet from Apo Kayan to the 

 Mahakam. Since that time the people have called them- 

 selves Long-Glit, which is their correct name, but as they 

 have already become known as Long-Glat, through the 

 Dutch, I shall use that designation. 



In the kapala's house I saw a superb plank, four 

 metres long, raised lengthwise against the wall; one side 

 of it was taken up with fine carvings on a large scale, 

 representing three pairs of dogs. This I fortunately 

 obtained. The kapala's father was an Oma-Suling, but 

 his grandmother, a Long-Glat, had taught him some 

 kremi or kesa, the Malay words for folklore (in Long- 

 Glat, lawong), and I collected from him two rather inter- 

 esting tales, which are included with other folklore stories 

 at the end of this book. In one of them (No. 18) the 

 airplane is foreshadowed, and by one that could fly for a 



