A MONTH WITH THE DYAKS. 417 



"Rain at night. Thermometer, 80 degrees F. at 8 p.m. 



" November 2d. — The name of my young Dyak guide is Le 

 Tiac. He is just about my height, build, and age, a stout youug 

 fellow, and the only difference between us is that he is a Dyak and 

 I am an Anglo-Saxon — which makes all the difference in the world. 



"We went out in the morning, far and high on the hills, 

 and saw, at first, only some big rhinoceros hom-bills {Buceros rhi- 

 noceros), at which we got no shot. Too many trees for us to see 

 through before they took flight. Heard a troop of wah-wahs cry- 

 ing, stalked up to them with the greatest skill — and did not 

 see even one. Disgusting ! Little Dobah was taken with an at- 

 tack of chills and fever on the way home. 



" "When we reached the clearing at noon we noticed how hot it 

 was out in the open, whereas in the jungle it was pleasantly cool, 

 damp, and intensely shady. Had we been hunting in the sunshine 

 all the morning, we would have been done up long before the 

 time we returned. The forest is so shady one does not even think 

 of the sun ; but in the house we felt the heat. Then we took our 

 dehciously cold bath in the stream near the house, changed clothes, 

 and after a modest breakfast lay do'mi with "Chesterfield's Let- 

 ters " for a rest. At such times I always lie on the floor near the 

 Old Man, and he takes great delight in teasing me in various ways. 

 He pulls my hair, butts me with his head, sits on my stomach, 

 chmbs all over me and wrestles with my bare feet, all in the droll- 

 est and most comical way, as only a mias can. 



" At 3 P.M. we went out again, without Dobah, and, in about an 

 hour, we saw a mias rombi swinging across a deep ravine. I fired 

 two shots and killed it directly. It fell what seemed a great dis- 

 tance, to the bottom of the ravine, and landed in a veiy pict- 

 uresque spot, just beside a clear gurgling stream, that came tum- 

 bhng down the rocky gorge. This mias. No. 39, female, is uot a 

 large one. Le Tiac peeled some strips of bark from a sapHng, 

 tied its elbows together behind its back, fixed a broad smooth 

 head-strap, and prepared to carry the animal alone. I proposed to 

 sHng it over a pole and help him get away with it, but he preferred 

 to carry it alone ; so he backed it and carried it, unassisted, up the 

 steep side of that deep ravine to the top without resting, then 

 down the long ridge and so on home. I can kill ten mias easier 

 than one wah-wah. 



" Thermometer : morning, 80 degrees F. ; noon, 90 ; night, 82. 



''November dd. — A good score to-day. Just after I had fin- 

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