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May 17th. — Left Ketuh in the morning, a small flotilla of 

 dug-outs taking us down the Eetuh stream and then up the 

 main Sadong river for some two hours to the village of Temah. 

 Here we stopped for a meal and to change the crew, the custom 

 being for the traveller to be passed on from village to village. 

 The Pengara, or sub-chief of this village, was an old man 

 getting on for eighty ; he told us he was a young man at the 



LAND-DAYAKS OF SADONC DISTRICT, SARAWAK. ph oto by H. W. Smith. 



time of the Chinese insurrection, which took place in Sarawak 

 in 1857. He, if anyone, should have remembered Wallace, but 

 his memory failed him. We left a little after mid-day and 

 entered the Suhuh stream, a branch of the Sadong emerging 

 on the right bank just opposite the village of Temah. Into this 

 stream, quite close to the mouth, runs another little stream 

 called the Borotoi, where the Dayak village was in Wallace's 

 day. Now there is no habitation there. 



From here Wallace continued his boat journey up the main 

 Sadong river (or Kayan river as it is known by the Dayaks in 



