ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES. 
The Mariks. 
These people are an increasing tribe living about 
40 miles above the Government Station at Claudetown 
on the main Baram River. 
They appear to be an extraordinary conglomeration 
of Kenyah, Kalabit and Kayan. According to their 
own history they originally came from the Bahau 
River in Dutch Borneo, and were probably part of the 
original Kelamantan inhabitants of that district, but 
were driven inland by the Kenyah tribes, Leppu 
pant, Leppu Keh, etc. They then moved over into 
the Balong River, a tributary of the Ulu Baram, and 
gradually came further down-river to Long Semiang. 
where they came in touch with the Kayans, who were 
pushing over into Baram from the Batang Kayan. 
They made a close connection with the Kayans, which 
led to the introduction of a lot of Kayan words into 
their language. After being nearly exterminated by 
the great epidemic of small-pox in about 1875, they 
moved into the Selaan River amongst the Kayans. 
where they were attacked with great slaughter 
by the Leppu Teppus from the Batang Kayan, and 
those who escaped settled at their present village at 
Long Tamalla. They claim close relationship with 
such Kenyah Kelamantans as the Long Akar, Long 
Sibatu and Long Ulai tribes, and most of their customs 
are similar to this division of the Kelamantan race. 
Their religion consists of a belief in the usual numerous 
deities of the Kenyah mythology reigned over by the 
supreme god, Bali Peselong. These deities live in a 
separate heaven from that to which the souls of mortals 
go and the locality of it is unknown,-probably in 
the sky. 
Long Kendi is the name of the heaven to which the 
souls of mankind go, and all go there with the excep¬ 
tion of those who have been killed in warfare, and of 
women who have died in childbirth, Long Kendi 
is ruled by Iju Ipoi, a semi-deity, and no work is done 
there; the paddy grows of its own accord and every- 
