4 A TRIP TO МТ. PENRISSEN, SARAWAK, 
hat known as “ Bok tumbis;" this was cylindrical, narrower at 
the top than at the bottom, 9 inches in eight, made of coloured 
beads strung in striking patterns on five threads of rotan, the 
whole strengthened with uprights of thicker rotan. Тһе top 
was open, and through the aperture the wearer—always a 
woman—pulls her hair, allowing it to stream out on all sides, it 
is only worn in dances during the annual harvest feast; the men 
on such occasions sometimes wear a necklet of tiger-cat’s teeth 
alternated with the teeth of bats, squirrels апі such like small 
eer. Besides elegantly-carved wooden handles for their 
parangs, baskets woven from rotan, without any distinctive 
pattern, and small oval wooden boxes for powder and shot, 
could discover no other article which these people make. 
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That evening we held a great “ bichara," and after over- 
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mountain; our thirty to forty coolies wanted to take only the 
lightest loads, whilst we naturally wanted them to take those ' 
things which we needed most, leaving the rest to follow with 
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twelve o'clock to rest and discuss a meal. At one o'clock 
we were on again, and soon reached the lower slopes of the 
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