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telling this man at the same time to go and kill the Kadyan. The burly Dusun found that 
he had met his match for brag, so in the end was willing to reduce this fine to a box of 
matches ; but as we refused to be fined he did not even get this. On the following day 
this man accepted of wages and carried the rest of the baggage from Kapar to this village 
without slaying the Kadyan. This is a fair example of the Dusun attempts at 
blackmailing us; but we always returned threat for threat, showing them that we were 
in no way frightened of them. 
On the evening of the 22ncl everything was ready for an early start on the morrow. 
The Dusuns had even settled to carry our baggage. Some I paid in shot, of which I had a 
good deal to spare : this they use for weights for their casting-nets, melting the lead in 
small wooden moulds. Old clothes that had seen months of hard wear, bottles, tin boxes, 
and our spare stock of rice were accepted by these people as wages; I had also a small 
stock of trade-goods, and with this miscellaneous collection paid my way to Billio’s village. 
There was, however, a serious hitch in our arrangements, caused by the entrance of a 
drunken Dusun, who talked very big and declared that all the packs were too heavy and 
that he would not accept of the wages offered; others who were disappointed at not 
receiving baggage immediately sided with this drunken man, and swore that we should 
not traverse the paths which led through their fields, as they would put up cross bamboos 
(I suppose the sign of Dusun “ Tabu ”); and so for some hours our chance of reaching the 
coast did not look very great. Through Buntar as interpreter I thanked them for treating 
us so kindly after our long stay in their village, and wound up by telling them that two of 
my men would start at daylight for the coast and bring back sufficient Bajows to carry 
everything. Seeing that they Avould lose everything by this manoeuvre, by 10 P.M. Dusun 
after Dusun had sneaked into the house and agreed to go for the wages offered. 
I was much amused with one of my Dusun friends. One evening he came and sat 
down beside me, and said he was very sorry that I was really going to leave Melangkap 
and not going to return. I was just beginning to congratulate myself that I had found 
some affection at last in the Dusun mind, when my friend told me the cause of his 
sorrow, which immediately dispelled this illusion; his reason was that when I was gone 
he would have no more trousers: since I have been in this district most of these chawated 
Dusuns are able to wear trousers of tracle-clot-h. 
23rd May.—This morning all the village turned out to see us off and to secure the 
many articles we left behind, the people of the house being delighted with their plunder of 
old sacks, bottles, biscuit-boxes, and other rubbish. I presented the old priestess with a 
towel a few days ago; this she folded in half, sewed up the sides, leaving holes for her 
arms, cutting a slit in the middle for her head, and in a few minutes was wearing this 
novel garment. She has prophesied that something serious Avill happen to the tribe on 
account of our visit, Avhicli is, to these ignorant aborigines, an event caused by the 
supernatural, so they conclude that they Avill be visited by some calamity. 
24th.—Yesterday Ave succeeded in travelling far beyond Ghinambur, and camped 
under the starry heavens, beside a great tree-trunk that has been stranded on a shingie- 
bank in the middle of the river. After sunset we Avere visited by some Dusuns, avIio 
came to beg for needles, whom Ave sent home rejoicing with five each. The river is high 
