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The tribe furnishes three hundred fighting men, and numbers from fifteen hundred to two thousand. "The bachelors, as with the Dyaks, have a separate dwelling. "Tanee's tribe, who are returning to Sibou on the Rajah's promise to build a fort at Kenowit, are of the same tribe, and number about three hundred men. They speak the Milanow language, and have the same customs of burial.
After two days' paddling from the mouth of the Rejang, the boats arrived at Sibou, where there is a manufactory for nepa salt. The nepa palm grows down to the edge of the banks, which are washed by a salt tide, and furnishes the Dyak with many necessaries. The leaves make the thatch to cover the roofs of the houses, or shelter over their boats.
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