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The Blanchita kept near enough to enable all hands to witness the operation, which the Bornean described to them as the Malays made their preparations, for they had all their fishing-gear in their boat. The line they used was a rattan about forty feet long. At the "business end," as Scott called it, they attached a float to keep it on the top of the water.
But the Bornean bee-hunter, usually a Dyak, will also tell you that in these conflicts the red gorilla is the victor, though each of the two great reptile antagonists that attack it is often thirty feet in length, with a girth almost equalling its own.
The foremast hands declined the proffered courtesy; and Achang explained to the ladies that only the four young men who were seated were the magnates of the company, while the others were inferior personages, for the Bornean was not strictly democratic in his ideas. "We will look at the house now, if you please," said Mr.
"Faix, the bridges betune oursels and civiloization are all broke down!" exclaimed Felix McGavonty, who sometimes used his Milesian dialect in order, as he put it, not to lose his mother's brogue. "Not so bad as that, Felix; for there is considerable civilization lying around loose in Borneo," replied Louis Belgrave. "Not much of it here is found," added Achang Bakir, the Bornean.
"Tell them we will go ahead, Achang, and all they need to do is to make fast their rattans to the sampan," said Captain Scott, when he had taken in the situation. In reply to the message the Bornean delivered to them, the Malays nodded their heads vigorously, and smiled their assent. "Go ahead, down the river, Clinch," added the captain to the helmsman.
But the young men were busy observing the various craft; for they were of all sorts and kinds, from the simple Chinese sampan to the craft fifty feet long, provided with a cabin, and parts of her covered with the leaf awning, something like what they had seen in Borneo. "Where does this boat come from, Achang?" asked Felix. The Bornean spoke to a man who seemed to be the captain and a Malay.
I ARRIVED at Sarawak on November 1st, 1854, and left it on January 25th, 1856. In the interval I resided at many different localities, and saw a good deal of the Dyak tribes as well as of the Bornean Malays. I was hospitably entertained by Sir James Brooke, and lived in his house whenever I was at the town of Sarawak in the intervals of my journeys.
"Can you tell me, Achang, why they build their houses on piles in this country?" asked Morris. "Because they have waterations here." "Have what?" demanded the questioner, while all the party laughed except the Bornean. "I never heard of waterations before." "When the water rise up high," Achang explained. "Inundations, you mean." "Yes; thunderations," added Achang.
To attempt attacking the animal with his knife would have been absurd, as well as dangerous for the Malayan bear can maintain a better fight than his Bornean brother. But, indeed, even had Alexis desired it, there would have been no chance to reach the animal with his knife unless the hunter should himself climb up the palm; and that was more than he either dared or could.
About noon we arrived at Sampit, a clean, attractive village situated on slightly higher ground than is generally available on Bornean rivers. The stream is broad here, having almost the appearance of a lake. As is the custom, a small park surrounds the controleur's residence, and in the outskirts of the town is a small, well-kept rubber plantation belonging to a German.
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