Mil. EARh ON THE DYAKS. 



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Page 2 GO. ** The Dyaks are a inucli superior people io 

 the Malaya/* 



Page 262. Their domestic relations towards eacli 

 oth^r^ — that is to say, fomards members oft/ieir oiun famtlt/ 

 and trilei — are of a raOd naturo, according with their 

 general dispossitions." 



And, after a particular account of the Dyak propensity 

 for hoad-hiititing, which Mr. Eai^I is iucliiied to nscribe to 

 a religious superstition, Sic continues — 



Pages 271— 273, "Tlie horrid nitissacrea perpetmtcd 

 by the witder Dyaks would seem to sanction mi opinion 

 that all attempts to improve llicm would bo hopeless : but 

 I feol confident tliat no people on earth, with the excep- 

 tion perhaps of their counterparts, the natives of South 

 America, are so suisgeptible of cinlisatiou, * * * Freedom 

 of commerce, wliich lias hitherto been found the best 

 intstmment of civilisation, would rapidly improve the con- 

 dition of these people : and were an European settlement, 

 with a free port, established on one of the numerous large 

 rivers, the Dyaks would soon be brought into com- 

 munication with it, for they are greatly addicted to 

 commerce, and spare no pains to procuro articles of 

 foreign manufactui-e, for which tiiey have acf^uired 

 a taste." 



Lastly, at page 210, iii allusion to the then recent 

 discovery of antimony- ore at Saiilwakj ho says of tfiat 

 place, that **the rapidity with which it has risen tt) 

 importauce pixives how very little encouragement the 



