304 SEA BYAK RELIGION. 



amulets and talismans of all kinds to help them in the work 

 of life. This sums up the meaning of their eschatological 

 observances which perhaps exceed those of most other races of 

 mankind. 



But this future life does not, in their minds, extend to 

 an immortality. Death is still the inevitable destiny. Some 

 Dyaks say they have to die three times ; others seven times ; 

 but all agree in the notion, that after having become degener- 

 ated by these successive dyings, they become practically anni- 

 hilated by absorption into air and fog, or by a final dissolution 

 into various jungle plants not recognized by any name. May 

 be, they lack the mental capacity to imagine an endless state 

 of liveable life. 



J. PERHAM. 



