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Updated: May 2, 2025
I leave the Main Stream and journey up the Sarekei A Stream overarched by Vegetation House 200 feet long I make Friends with the Chief My New Quarters Rarity of White Men Friendliness of my New Hosts Embarrassing Request from a Lady, "like we your skin" Similar Experience of Wallace Crowds to see me Undress Dayak's interest in Illustrated Papers Waist-rings of Dayak Women Teeth filled with brass Noisiness of a Dayak House Dayak Dogs A well-meant Blow and its Sequel Uproarious Amusement of the Dayaks Dayak Fruit-Trees The Durian as King of all Fruits Dayak "Bridges" across the Swamp-Dances of the Head-Hunters A Secret "Fishing" Expedition A Spear sent by way of defiance to the Government I "score" off the Pig-Hunters Dayak Diseases Dayak Women and Girls Two "Broken Hearts" I Raffle my Tins "Cookie" and the Head-Hunters, their Jokes and Quarrels My Adventure with a Crocodile.
The houses of the Muruts are small and low, and of poor construction. The Sea Dayak's house differs from that of the Kayan more than any of the others. The general plan is the same; but the place of the few massive piles is taken by a much larger number of slender piles, which pass up to the roof through the gallery and chambers.
Features of savage life difficult to understand for the European. The Dayak's conception of justice. Common law. The immense part played by mutual aid and mutual support in the evolution of the animal world has been briefly analyzed in the preceding chapters. We have now to cast a glance upon the part played by the same agencies in the evolution of mankind.
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