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ONE) OF THE EXPERTS IN THE SPORT OE COCK-EIGHTING 



EXAMINING THE EONG KNIVES WITH WHICH 



THE BIRDS ARE ARMED 



When the cocks are so equipped, the fights are of short duration 

 The native in this photograph is wearing a coat of typical Dayak tex- 

 ture and design. 



opened tin of milk, and biscuits in the 

 bottom of an iron pail and then laid the 

 kerosene lantern on top. He was much 

 distressed when he discovered the oily 

 condition of my lunch ; but there is a 

 phrase in the Malay language that solves 

 all difficulties, "Apa buleh buat?"— What 

 can one do ? 



As Juni had worked in the houses of 

 some of the planters near Kuching, where 

 he had learned both good cooking and 

 dainty serving, he supplied my table with 



such delicacies as 

 fried fish, pheasant 

 stew, and salads of 

 fern sprouts and the 

 hearts of palms, but 

 he did not at all ap- 

 prove of my coarse, 

 agate plates ; so, quite 

 unknown to me, he 

 bought a pretty blue 

 China plate in order 

 that the products of 

 his culinary art might 

 be served in a worthy 

 manner. 



His good humor 

 was inexhaustible, 

 even under inconsider- 

 ate treatment from 

 one or two of my Sea 

 Dayak boys, who, like 

 the Prussians, regard- 

 ed themselves as be- 

 longing to a superior 

 race. The following 

 incident shows that 

 he possessed no small 

 amount of intelli- 

 gence. 



fighting maearia 

 and smaeepox 



When planning to 

 visit one of the coast 

 stations where mala- 

 ria happened to be un- 

 usually serious, I cau- 

 tioned my seven na- 

 tive boys that they 

 m u st all provide 

 themselves with mos- 

 quito curtains to sleep 

 under, explaining that 

 it had been discovered that if one were 

 not bitten by a mosquito he would not get 

 fever. After thinking over my statement, 

 Juni called attention to the fact, which I 

 had failed to notice, that while we had 

 been up river only those had had fever 

 who did not have mosquito nets. He as- 

 sured me solemnly that he thought there 

 was something in what I said. 



In this connection the natives' willing- 

 ness to be vaccinated is worth mentioning. 

 Smallpox epidemics occur frequently 



