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say, bore her bereavement without shedding a tear, as she had always showed a positive 
dislike to her boy husband, who was a diminutive and disagreeable young man. Before 
■we left Melangkap, Gamboie, the widower, had asked and been accepted as Kratas’s second 
husband. 
As the father-in-law has great power over his son-in-law, so the father loses all 
influence over his own son. In the house where I stopped during my second expedition, 
a young man was living, as is the custom, with his wife’s family; his father used to visit the 
house frequently, often staying for a few days at a time, his home being a few hours distant 
at Ghinambur. One day his son had high words with him, and told the old man to leave 
the house, as he did not intend to feed him any longer. 
There are a few female orphans in the village ; they, when married, either join their 
husband’s household, or the young people set up for themselves. 
The Dusuns bury their dead at no great distance from the campong—in Melangkap 
at one end of the village green. The graves are at first hung round with the personal 
property of the departed—the clothes, small chopper, and the bamboo basket every Dusun 
carries at his back; the garments are left till they rot away. I have seen jars half sunken 
in the earth over some graves, but after a time these are removed, and there is nothing 
left to show the Dusun’s last resting-place. Small children are occasionally buried under 
the houses. 
The domestic animals of the Dusun are few—cattle, buffaloes, pigs, dogs, and chickens. 
First, and perhaps most important, is the Dusun pig, or “Waguk.” The “Waguk” is 
an interesting animal; he is very narrow—a Rail among mammals ; his colour is black; he 
has an evil but inquiring eye, and generally cruises below the house, where he pounces on 
anything that may accidentally fall through the floor. The “Waguk” is the pet of the 
Dusun household, and is christened with a single name, like the Dusuns themselves. The 
pig belonging to our house—the following year—rejoiced in the name of “Empallong.” 
The Dusuns feed their pigs twice a day, but they subsist chiefly on the filth they can find in 
the neighbourhood of the campong. At sunset you may hear half a dozen women calling 
their pigs home; the cry is “ Ke-Ke-Ke, Empallong, Empallong! ” of the women in our 
house. When Empallong is big enough he forms part of a religious ceremony, and is after¬ 
wards stabbed to the heart. Under the houses may be often noticed small pens, composed 
of stout sticks stuck in the ground a few inches apart; in this enclosure the young 
“ waguks ” are fed, to the discomfiture of their parents. Buffaloes are used for riding, but 
more often allowed to run in a semi-wild state like the cattle, and killed for feasts. 
The next animal in importance is the dog, or “ Tasso.” They are small foxv-looking little 
animals, generally as thin as a rake, and ready to devour anything, from a traveller’s boots 
to his mosquito-net; as most houses have several dogs belonging to them and these animals 
are seldom fed by their masters, they are a great nuisance. In our house there was more 
food about than in those of the natives, so at night the clatter of falling cooking-utensils 
would give the alarm, and one or two native dogs would make a rush for the door, in 
which there is often a hole cut for their convenience. The Melangkap dogs ate several of 
my bird-skins and the top off one of my boots. They became such a nuisance at night, 
that at last the Kadyans set nooses for them and soundly belaboured all captured. 
