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Baram Singh reflected. "First of all the Captain-sahib offered a box of cheroots to his visitor, and his visitor refused and took a pipe from his pocket. The Captain-sahib then lit a cheroot for himself and replaced the box on the top of the bureau." "And after that?" asked Travers.
And while Baram Singh still stood waiting for orders in the doorway of the tent Ballantyne walked round the table, took up the portrait very deliberately and handed it to Thresk. "Thank you," he said. "Button it in your coat pocket." He waited while Thresk obeyed. "Thus," said Thresk with a laugh, "did the Rajah of Bakutu," and Ballantyne replied with a grin. "Thank you for mentioning that name."
Of the three principal invasions, that of the Kayans has been of most effect in spreading a higher culture among the indigenous population. The tradition of such north-westward migration is preserved among the Kayans of the Baram, who, according to their own account, crossed the watershed into the basins of the western rivers only a few generations ago.
Baram Singh replied that he had brought an ash-tray for the Sahib, and he placed it on the round table by Thresk's side. "Well, get out and don't come back until you are called," cried Ballantyne roughly, and in evident relief as Baram Singh once more retired he took a long draught from a fresh tumbler of whisky-and-soda which stood on the flap of the bureau beside him.
But the successful administration of one of the larger and wilder districts, such as the Rejang or the Baram, requires that the Resident shall not be content with the zealous discharge of his many duties at his headquarters.
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