462 TWO YEAES IN THE JUNGLE. 



vividly in connection with my last trip down the Simujan, was 

 Noonsong sitting in the stem of Hakka's prau, paddling and steer- 

 ing for him, clad in a jacket of turkey red, and a gorgeous Malay 

 hat, similar to the one she made for me, her long black haii- stream- 

 ing down her back, the water flying fi-om her paddle and the rain 

 pouring down upon us all. 



The ornaments of the Sea Dyak women consist of many coils of 

 thick brass wire, sometimes loose and sometimes fitting tightly, 

 occasionally brass spiral, worn round the waist when they are rich 

 enough to afford it, and coils of split rattan, dyed dark red or black 

 when the brass is beyond their purchase. Loose rings and coils of 

 the same material are sometimes hung around the neck also, and 

 half cover the breast. Beads I never saw worn on the neck. They 

 also wear coils of brass wire, or else large hollow bracelets of silver, 

 on their arms from the wrist upward, when they can afford it. ]\Ir. 

 Haughton informed me that ornaments of gold and silver were 

 quite common among the people of Sakarran and Seribas, the 

 resvilt of their piratical habits in former times. The only orna- 

 ments I saw worn on the lower limbs, were leglets of rattan and 

 sometimes brass \vire, worn immediately below the knee, varying in 

 number from one to five. Some of the women wore a large orna- 

 ment like a silver rosette on the lobe of each ear, beaten hollow on 

 the inside and held by being riveted through the flesh. I was told 

 that these are made of gold when the wearer's husband is rich 

 enough to afford it. 



The men of Sibuyau wore very neatly-made armlets and leglets 

 of braided rattan, some extremely narrow and others half an inch 

 wide. The men of Sakarran and Seribas wear a number of brass 

 or copper rings of different sizes in the rim of each ear one above 

 another, the largest below, the smallest at the top, and often three 

 or four together, two or three inches in diameter, in the lobe of the 

 ear. With the men of these two clans, this custom is so universal 

 that they are everywhere recognized by it. In former times the Hill 

 Dyaks used to say, "Beware of the men with many rings in their 

 ears ; they are always bad men." I have never seen a specimen of 

 the head-dress worn by the Sea Dyaks when on the war-path, but 

 Mr. Haughton described it to me as a three-inch-wide band of cloth 

 or bark-cloth with cowiies sewn upon it, worn tightly around the 

 head from which there stand up from six to a dozen of the wide, 

 black-banded tail feathers of the rhinoceros hornbill. 



The weapons of the Sea Dyaks are really insignificant in com« 



