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After three nights at Tabekang, one of which was devoted to 

 revelry and the next to recovery, B. and I moved on up-river in 

 search of better country. We arranged with G. to meet again at 

 another village further up in four days' time. 



May 14:th. — Our cheerful Malay crew, who had paddled us 

 up from Simunyan, going on gently for hours on end to the 

 accompaniment of topical songs, were replaced by Dayaks, and 

 we distributed ourselves and our baggage over some half-dozen 

 small boats suitable for the shallows of the upper part of the 

 river. Paddling was no use now, and our crew stood up, two in 

 the bow, two in the stern, poleing us along, now and again 

 dragging the boat over some particularly shallow place. We 

 followed the main Sadong river past the village of Krosin, and 

 further up turned into a little stream on our right, which brought 

 us to the village of Eetuh. The sunny spots on this stream 

 showed more signs of insect life, the beautiful brown Papilio 

 payeni being one of the first to attract attention ; this is a great 

 rarity in Sarawak. Dragonflies appeared in great abundance, 

 the beautiful green Neurobasis chinensis, the small Calopterygids 

 Euphcea tricolor and E. incequipa all adding beauty to the scene. 

 On the sand we found the little Cicindelid C. discreta, and on the 

 bushes above another little Cicindelid {C.filigera) was common. 



Like most native villages (other than Malay) in Sarawak the 

 inhabitants build one or two long houses, which are divided 

 down the middle by a partition shutting off the living-rooms on 

 one side and a long common verandah on the other. The 

 living-room side is divided into small compartments by par- 

 titions at right-angles to the long central wall ; each compart- 

 ment is the home of one family ; the number of families thus 

 living in one row varies from three or four to ninety. In the 

 Land-Dayak villages ten to twenty is the average number. A 

 raised flap in the roof gives light and air. The whole house is 

 raised on stilts some 10 ft. from the ground, wood, of course, 

 being the only material used, stone houses being absolutely 

 unknown. One of the distinguishing features of the Land- 

 Dayak villages is the head-house, or pancha, as they call it. 

 This is more like an overgrown Pigeon-cote than anything else 

 — a large room, 30 ft. square, raised on wooden posts some 20 ft. 

 off the ground, and protected by a high conical roof. In this 



