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Updated: June 18, 2025
They are tatued, and noticeable on the men is a succession of stars across the chest, as if hanging on a thread which is lower in the middle. The stars symbolise the fruits of durian. The colour of the tatuing is obtained from damar.
The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.
The kapala whom I saw at Long Kai had the mark of a ripe durian on each shoulder in front and an immature one above each nipple. On the lower part of the upper arm was a tatu of an edible root, in Penihing called rayong. Over the back of his right hand, toward the knuckles, he had a zigzag mark representing the excrescences of the durian fruit.
The Kling took up the fruit; and smelt it with his eyes half-closed, and then drawing in a long breath, he sighed gently, as if with regret that he might not indulge in such delicacies. "Bess durian," he said, in an exaggerated ecstatic manner. "Quite bess ripe." Bob stooped down and retook a portion of the strange fruit, smelt it cautiously, and then, taking out a knife, prepared to taste it.
For three days we found no Orangs, but shot a deer and several monkeys. On the fourth day, however, we found a Mias feeding on a very lofty Durian tree, and succeeded in killing it, after eight shots. Unfortunately it remained in the tree, hanging by its hands, and we were obliged to leave it and return home, as it was several miles off.
Sugar, boiled rice, durian, cocoanuts began to fall down, also tobacco, salt, clothing all the good things that they could wish for. The Raja Besar was greatly pleased and was all smiles, and the people of her kampong no longer found it necessary to work. Everything that they needed came when they wished for it, and all enjoyed this state of things.
The flowering of certain plants and the ripening of certain fruits gives the Sakai a faint idea of the longest period of time they are capable of imagining and which is about equal to our year. The seasons, which cannot here be recognized by diversity of temperature, are distinguished by the gathering and storing away of those fruits that supply them with food at regular intervals of time, such as the durian season, that of the bu
If one were treating of berries or nuts this would not be so remarkable but each fruit of the durian weighs about two kilograms and is as large as a child's head.
This was my own case when I first tried it in Malacca, but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater. The Durian grows on a large and lofty forest tree, somewhat resembling an elm in its general character, but with a more smooth and scaly bark.
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.
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