BY THE BE YD. W. HOWELL. 
14 — “Entak besergak anak 
briak bemain lepang. 
Langkah sayau rebah 
lama tumbang! Kami 
ti lelaki ari clini hari 
tadi ngaga seligi, eng¬ 
gai nyadi. nibong sa 
larnpang.” 
15— “Kama lemon kitai cli 
Sabayan?” Pia ko ja- 
ko Jiram. “Ari dini 
hari dalam tadi malau 
an trail lain enggai 
nyadi bebanang pung- 
cr.n np 1 ” 
16— “Penglama kitai d i 
Serawai Mandi,” pia 
ko Sida ti biak enggai 1 
ti tuai “ngaga tragai 
pen enggai nyadi udah 
Sa pagi rangkai enggai 
ngena lantang disem- 
bang. 
17— “Penglama kitai d i 
Tanjong Bui oh Laung 
ngaga basong pen 
enggai nyadi ari kulit 
entli tawang. 
18— “Entak beserbana ki¬ 
tai, ploh mampoh ne- 
lusor dai, ploh di 
idong baka grunong 
gre besi. 
iq — -“P loh dagu baka tru- 
tu ambiin sa pagi, ploh 
dada tali alai ngela ka 
anak pungka laid. 
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“The young briak birds are 
gathered together and are 
playing with the lepang 
fruits. Alas ! What a loss 
it was when Langkah 
died years ago ! We men, 
long before dawn, began 
to make spears from a 
piece of nibong palm, but 
could not make t h e m 
successfully.” 
“What is this that is hap¬ 
pening to us in Hades?” 
says Jiram. “From 
early dawn I have been 
trying but without suc¬ 
cess, to fix a band on the 
shaft of a spear.” 
“All these years that we 
have dwelt at Serawai 
Mandi,” both the old and 
young exclaim, “it has 
never been like this, in a 
whole morning we can¬ 
not even shape a shield. 
“All the years that we have 
been at Tanjong Ruloh 
Laung it has never been 
like this, we cannot even 
make a basong from the 
bark of the entli tree. 
“Therefore we complain 
of the perspiration that 
inundates the forehead 
and pours down the nose, 
drops of perspiration the 
size of the little hawk- 
bells. 
“The perspiration of the 
chin is like the flow of the 
morning dew, and on the 
breast there is sufficient 
to bathe a male child. 
17 .—Basong is a carrier’s basket made from the bark of a tree; this kind of 
basket is carried or used on the war path, or in setting pig traps; the mouth 
is large and the bottom very narrow. The entli tree grows on hills and is 
much used by Dayaks for its fine bark; hawk-bells are attached to the coat or 
\vaist-cloth by wav of adornment. 
