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AltJaougli the MiUauows do not preserve tlie heads of 

 their enemies, a joung warrior will occasionally bear home 

 such a trophy witli the same sort of pleasure with which 

 a young fojf-lnmter takes home Mb first bruslu Ou this 

 occasion, a juTcnile aspirant to love and glory, who Imd 

 accompanied the expoditioti and wished to display a pri/e 

 he had won, was met on landing by the women, who had 

 already spied the relic from their elevated platform on the 

 bank. They desceiided to meet it with a stick in each 

 liaud, and began to pky on the unfortunate licad, as if it 

 had beca a tomtom. After this performance, each in turn 

 rushed into tho river, as if to clcaaso horself from the 

 pollution. Although these gentle creatures did not strike 

 with any violence, it was as much as the young hero could 

 do to prevent his trophy from being pommelled into a 



On the 11th August, after having wooded the steamer, 

 the expedition moved higher up the Eejang^ and anchored 

 off the branch leading to Sirikd. Alligators abound m 

 these streams ; and the rhinoceros is said to be numerous 

 in the interior. 



After ascending this magnificent river, whicJi for eighty 

 miles up would admit a line-of-battlo ship, they came to, on 

 the 14th, off tho mouth of tJie Kaoowit, — a stream wLich 

 luid never yet been ascended by Europeans. 



In the course of the progress of the expedition up the 

 Rejang, the ELajah wa.s waited on by the Panguerans and 

 most of the influential meu from Oya, Muka^ Suiki, and 



