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Updated: May 20, 2025
We then came to the delta of the Rejang River, and went up one of its many mouths, which was of great width, though the scenery all the way was monotonous, and consisted of nothing but mangroves, pandanus, the feathery nipa palm and the tall, slender "nibong" palm, with here and there a crocodile lying, out on the mud banks a dismal scene.
We were fortunate enough to choose the right time for our expedition to the Rejang.
In other respects the customs of Passummah and Rejang are the same in these matters. This is performed by one of the fathers or the chief of the dusun, according to the original customs of the country; but where Mahometanism has found its way, a priest or imam executes the business. But little apparent courtship precedes their marriages.
On the fifth day the diminished fleet of boats entered the Lata, a tributary coming down from the Mudong Alan and Saat mountains, from the slopes of which the water runs also to the Rejang River and the Batang Kayan. Here the boats were left behind and the expedition went forward on foot, making but slow progress in the rocky river-bed.
When a man of one district or country has a debt owing to him from the inhabitant of a neighbouring country, of which he cannot recover payment, an usual resource is to seize on one or more of his children and carry them off; which they call andak. The daughter of a Rejang dupati was carried off in this manner by the Labun people.
In their lower reaches, where they traverse the alluvial plains and swamps, the rivers wind slowly to the sea with many great bends, and all the larger ones are navigable by small steamers for many miles above their mouths: thus a large steam launch can ascend the Rejang for 160 miles, the Baram for 120, and some of the rivers on the Dutch side for still greater distances.
After two days' paddling from the mouth of the Rejang, the boats arrived at Sibou, where there is a manufactory for nepa salt. The nepa palm grows down to the edge of the banks, which are washed by a salt tide, and furnishes the Dyak with many necessaries. The leaves make the thatch to cover the roofs of the houses, or shelter over their boats.
The Rejang, Batang Lupar, and Sarawak rivers are the largest, while among many other smaller streams are the Sadong, Saribus, Kalaka, Eyan, Muka, and Oya; the three latter, although small, are very important, as they run through the sago districts, where are large forests of that palm.
The Rejang, four fathoms deep two hundred miles from the mouth, the Batang Lupar, and the Sarawak are the largest, and the great highways of the country; along the banks of which are cultivated clearings and Dyak villages, but beyond these extend dense jungle which even clothes the sides of the mountains.
On the War-Path in Borneo. The "Orang-utan" and the "Man of the Jungle" Voyage to Sarawak The Borneo Company, Limited Kuching, a Picturesque Capital Independence of Sarawak I meet the Rajah and the Chief Officials Etiquette of the Sarawak Court The "Club" The "Rangers" of Sarawak and their Trophies Execution by means of the Long Kris Degeneracy of the Land Dayaks Ascent of the Rejang River Mud Banks and Crocodiles Dr.
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