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Updated: June 29, 2025
So I got no cocoanut-pudding that evening, but I conceived a distrust as to the value of the method of the head-hunters. Perhaps for many centuries the maidens of the villages may have been looking wistfully at the heads in the baskets at the doorways, longing for other and lesser trophies.
Head-hunters were mere daily episodes in Grits's existence, but water... He muttered something in cockney that sounded like a prayer.... The wind was rapidly driving us toward the middle of the pond, and something cold and ticklish was seeping through the seats of our trousers. We sat like statues....
We were bewilderingly aware of a girlish figure amongst us. "You cowards!" she cried. "You cowards!" Lithe, and fairly quivering with passion, it was Nancy who showed us how to face the head-hunters. They gave back. They would have been brave indeed if they had not retreated before such an intense little nucleus of energy and indignation!...
They soon came upon a big camp-fire and round it were squatted several hundred savages. The firelight gleaming upon the dark, fierce faces of the head-hunters and on their spears and knives, made a startling picture. They were round the visitors immediately, staring at the two white men in amazement.
High above the other voices were the shrill war-cries of the head-hunters the savages with their grewsome desires. "Can can we make it, Tom?" panted Ned. They were almost at the river channel now, and in another instant they had reached it.
From the Spanish writers we hear little but evil of this people. They are spoken of as warlike, superstitious, treacherous, and vengeful as head-hunters "who expose the heads of their enemies on poles," and as slavers.
By the next afternoon the excitement had reached white heat, and a wild crowd of men came roaring down the street. They hurled themselves at the little house where the missionaries were waiting and literally tore it to splinters. The screams of rage and triumph were so horrible that they reminded Mackay of the savage yells of the head-hunters.
Though head-hunters are known to travel wide and far, and distant Apo Kayan is not too remote for them, nevertheless to me, as well as to Chonggat, the risks seemed unfounded; however, there remained no alternative but for all of us to return to Long Pelaban. During April and the first half of May the weather was warm with very little rain, though at times thunder was heard at a distance.
Yet Tom was not afraid, nor did any of the others show signs of fear. "Bless my shotgun!" exclaimed Mr. Damon, as he looked at the few words on the paper which Tom passed around. "I wish Mr. Illingway had said more about the head-hunters or less." "What do you mean?" asked Ned.
To the westward it was fierce funny little black kinky- heads, man-eaters the last Jack of them, and the jackpot fat and spilling over with wealth " "Jack-pots?" Fatty queried. At sight of an irritable movement, he added: "You see, I never got over to the West like Delarouse and you." "They're all head-hunters. Heads are valuable, especially a white man's head.
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