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have been aware that any peculiar interest was connected 
with this information, so that his evidence must be con* 
flidered sati8factor}\ I have since searched the published 
accounts of visitors to the eiiat coast of Borneo^ but the 
only allusion I can find to a people i^ho may he allied to 
the same race, is contained in the papers of Mr, Dalton, 
who resided for eleven mouths on the Cot i River, to the 
sonth of the Buru, during the years 1827-28. Mr. 
Dalton's papers were originally published in the Singa- 
pore ChTOnicle^' of 1831; and the following extract is 
from Mr. Moor's "Notices of the Indian Ai-chipekgo," 
in which they are reprinted : 
" Farther towards the north of Borneo are to be found 
Dien living abssolutcly in a state of nature, who neither 
cultivate the ground nor live in huts ; who neither eat 
rice nor salt, and who do not assoeiate with each other, 
but rove about some woods like wild beasts. The sexes 
meet in the jungle, or the man carries away a woman 
from some kampong. When the children are old enough 
to shift for themselves they usually separate, neither one 
afterwards thinking of the other j at night they sleep 
under some large tree, the branches of which hang low. 
On these they fasten the children in a kind of swing ; 
around the tree they make a fire to keep off the wild 
beasts and snakes ; they cover themselves with a piece of 
bark, and in this also they wap their children ; it is soft 
and warm, but will not keep out the rain. These poor 
creatures are looked on and treated by the Dyaks as wild 
beasts ; bunting parties of twenty-five and thirty go out 
and amuse themselves with shooting at the children in 
the trees with sumpits, the same as monkeys, from which 
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