INDEX 



463 



of, 217, 218; punishment for marital 

 infidelity, 217, 218; original location 

 of, 218; makers of the sumpitan, 218, 

 246; mannerof curing disease, 218, 433; 

 the women of, 218, 253; customs re- 

 garding childbirth, 218; the Ulu-Ots, 

 342; Penyahbongs allied to, 429, 430; 

 tuba-fishing practised by, 430; remedy 

 of, for disease, 433; possess no remedy 

 for bite of snake, 433; death from 

 lightning unknown to, 433; included 

 in Orang Bahau, 433 



Puruk Tjahu, III, 113, 145, 148, 149 



Python, man-eating, 352 



Rails, marsh, 312 



Rain, in Borneo, 14, 15, 89, 193, 199, 214, 

 221, 222, 276, 3 10; storms in the jungle, 

 40; at Long Nawang, 95; usual oc- 

 currence of, atTamaloe, 175; storms on 

 Lake Sembulo, 376 



Rainy season in the tropics, 10, II, 370 



Raja, the Sultan's, 34; represented by 

 kapatong, 351; office of, hereditary, 

 245, 354; women rajas, 273 



Raja Besar, Ledjuli, a visit from, 226; 

 photographing, 229, 230; articles 

 bought from, 264; a trip up the Merasi 

 River with, 264, 265, 268 



Raja bird, the, 31, 32, 189 



Raja Paron, 262 



Rajimin, taxidermist, 109, 133, 150, 151; 

 illness and return of, 153 



Rambutan (wild fruit), 15, 243, 244 



Rapids, of the Barito River, 154-157; 

 of the Busang River, 165, 166, 168, 170, 

 190; of the Kasao River, 205-208; of 

 the Katingan River, 344; of the Kayan 

 River, 70, 71, 92, 426; of the Mahakam 

 River, 213, 277, 279, 280; of the Samba 

 River, 322, 323 



Rat, large white, 61 



Rattan, abundance of, in Borneo, 15; 

 cigar-cases made from, 25 ; uses of split, 

 83; gatherers of, 163, 214; mats made 

 from, 183, 198, 218, 274, 303; floated 

 down Kasao River, 207; no longer 

 found on Upper Mahakam, 214; caps 



°f, 179, 327 

 Rattles, worn by women, 136; used by 



blian at wedding, 303 

 Raven, Harry C, 22, 99 

 Religion, native ideas of, 1 19-124, 248, 



249, 445 



Retribution, folk-tale, 419 



Rhinoceros, 16, 38; horns of, 59; red 

 rubber statue of, 124, 125; hunting, 

 *77> 3345 folk-lore tale about, 386 



Rhinoflax vigil, 169 



Riam Kiwa River, the, 293, 300; eleva- 

 tion of watershed of, 301, 305 



Rice, brandy made from, 27, 28; polished, 

 a cause of beri-beri, 56; cooked in bam- 

 boo, 72; harvesting of, 80, 81, 339, 340; 

 method of husking, 211; cooking of, 

 for great festival, 227; throwing of, 

 2 3 I > 3545 making new field for, 338; 

 planting of, 339; time required for 

 cooking, 416 n.; season for planting, 

 determined by togallan, 443, 444; con- 

 sidered unfit for food day after cooking, 



444 

 Rickshaw men, the, 8, 10 

 Rifle, loaned by Sultan, 28 

 Rijckmans, L. F. J., 25, III 

 Rings, tin and brass, worn in ear-lobes, 



68, 76, 77 

 River system of Borneo, 14, 21 

 Rongkang, epidemic at, 368, 369 

 Roth, Ling, 23 

 Royal Dutch Packet Boat Company, 26, 



94, 108, 146 

 Rubber, 15; feast of gatherers of, 125, 



126; an English plantation, 295; 



gathering, at Sembulo, 375, 376 

 Rubea, the natives at, 147, 148 

 Rumphius, Dutch steamer, 10 

 Rusa. See Deer 



Sacrifice, of pig, 116, 117, 126, 202, 226, 

 227, 339. 358; of hens, 126, 127, 236; 

 of food, to antohs, 120, 121, 202, 225, 

 249; of slave in building of houses, 129, 

 341; of water-buffalo, 1 40, 363, 364; 

 at paddi-planting, 338, 339; when tree 

 falls, 358 



Sago-palm, 15, 179, 213, 281 



Sailors, Javanese, 94; Malay, 97, 98 



Salap (fish), 16 



Salt, use of, 47, 69, 81, 179, 217, 227, 279, 

 342 



Salt water, issuing from rock, 192; pool 

 of, 280 



Salutations, when meeting, 246; at leave- 

 taking, 343, 411, 413 n.; on entering 

 and leaving a house, 349 



Samarinda, 26; arrival at, 285; climate 

 of, 27; the natives in, 27 



Samariting, 208 



Samba River, the, fish in, 16; houses on, 

 316, 317; an expedition up, 321 et seq.; 

 passing the rapids of, 322, 323; night 

 on, 323; first European to visit, 326; 

 gold in, 326; data from, concerning 

 natives, 440 



Sambil goreng (native stew), 149 



Samoan tribe. See Tamoans 



Sampit, village of, 97, 99; start for, 375 j 



