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Updated: May 10, 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.
In less than a hundred years the settlers had introduced sheep and cattle, and looked upon the abounding pigs as a scourge. In 1862, pig-hunters were employed to destroy them three hunters would kill 20,000 pigs in a year. Dogs, cats and the European rats came in early with the settlers, and destroyed the flightless birds, driving them for shelter to the mountains.
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