BY R. S. DOUGLAS. 
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Kayans. I must confess that the Kalabit women will 
certainly never be renowned for their beauty. I don’t 
think I have ever in my life seen such degraded, sensual 
faces as they had. Curiously amongst these people it is 
the women who make the first advances in love and 
proposals of marriage. May not the possession of 
this privilege, together with the consequent lack of any 
necessity for them to attract and charm the opposite sex, 
be the reason of the disappearance of their beauty and 
grace ? If so, let this be a warning to suffragettes ! 
The climate up on the Mein plateau was delightful. 
There was not too much ram apparently, and the 
temperature was delightfully cool, in fact at night quite 
cold, so that we all had to sleep near fires and were glad of 
a thick blanket, whilst in the morning one tested the 
temperature of the water in the stream with one’s toes 
just like one tries a bath in England on a frosty morning. 
If only communication was better I am sure the Kalabit 
countrv would have a future before it as the health 
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resort of Borneo. 
