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AN EXPEDITION TO THE BAH COUNTRY. 
inflicted on the breakers of the peace. Fines and pledges 
are paid up with a‘sort of resigned expression as if to 
say : “ We have had our fun and so now we must pay for 
it,” and after the rites of peacemaking have been under¬ 
gone, the whilom enemies are once more friends and may 
be seen toasting one another in draughts of native beer. 
It is one of these expeditions sent out to admonish 
some tribes who had been breaking the peace that I 
intend to attempt to describe in the following lines. 
The expedition was directed against some tribes of 
Kalabits, living right in the very centre of Borneo, in a 
sort of no-naan’s land on the borders of Sarawak and 
Dutch territory. These had been raiding and killing 
Sarawak subjects for some years past and as they had 
refused to listen to the peaceful arguments of various 
ambassadors, who had been sent to try and persuade 
them to allow Government to adjudicate on their griev¬ 
ances, a force was despatched against them a few years 
ago, which in seven roaring days in the enemies' country 
destroyed 30 villages and killed some 200 of the offenders. 
After this sharp lesson they and several adjacent tribes 
sent down messages saying that they were prepared to 
make peace, with the result that I received instructions 
to proceed up country and meet the chiefs of these tribes 
and arrange peace. As I had to pass some hostile tribes 
before I could meet with these people, I determined to 
take a good strong force with me, as with a show of 
strength and the result of the recent attack still ringing 
in their ears, I expected that they might consider dis¬ 
cretion the best policy and also decide to make peace, in 
which course I was justified as subsequent events showed. 
On October 25th I left the Fort at Claudetown on the 
Baram River, and accompanied by five policemen and 200 
Kayans and Kenyahs under their two chiefs Tama Wan 
Bayer and Tama Lawai |au, we proceeded up a tribu¬ 
tary called the Tutau. The Kayans and Kenyahs are 
two large interior tribes, who have lived under Sarawak 
rule for some years now, and owing to the powerful 
influence of their chiefs, are quite peaceable and well- 
behaved. At first our journey was quite uneventful, in 
fact monotonous, paddling in long war-canoes from day¬ 
break to sunset. However, when we had left the Fort 
some ten days, we got into the rapids and cataracts 
