INTERIOR OF BORNEO. 



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we found there. We then branched off up a tributary called the 

 Magoh and on the second day from leaving Long Taoh reached 

 the first Kalabit villages at the mouth of a small stream called 

 the Seridari. On our arrival we were saluted with salvoes of 

 firing from muskets and bedils and tremendous cheering, to 

 which we retaliated to the best of our ability. The chief Hi 

 Bawang received us at the landing place and a sort of 

 triumphal procession was made up to the house, where my 

 escort were ^regaled with ' borak ' (rice beer) and smokes, to 

 refresh them after the fatigues of the journey, 



The people of this village, who numbered some two 

 hundred souls, had quite recently moved here from near the 

 headwaters of the Trusan, and their chief, Hi Bawang, had 

 evidently taken a lesson from the dimensions of the long 

 Kayan houses in the Baram Biver as he had constructed a 

 splendid house on a scale hitherto unattempted by Kalabits, 

 whose dwellings are generally veritable hovels. 



I append a sketch of the ground plan of the house. 



Verandah. 



B A E 



Private Room. 



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Private Room. 



Passage. 



Private Room. 











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A Fireplace. 

 B Sleeping Box. 



A wall divided the house in two lengthwise ; the front 

 half was a wide verandah of about 20 feet whilst the back 

 part was divided up into rooms, each family having a separate 

 room. The dividing wall however did not extend to the back 

 wall of the house, as they do in Kayan and Dyak houses, thus 



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