Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . A STARTLING ROBBERY 163 as possible, and if all went well we expected to have thenecessary men within three weeks. On the same afternoon Djobing and three companions,who were going up to another rattan station, Djudjang,on a path through the jungle, proposed to me to trans-port some of our luggage in one of my prahus. Theoffer was gladly accepted, a liberal price paid, and similartempting conditions offered if they and a few men, knownto be at the station above, would unite
Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . A STARTLING ROBBERY 163 as possible, and if all went well we expected to have thenecessary men within three weeks. On the same afternoon Djobing and three companions,who were going up to another rattan station, Djudjang,on a path through the jungle, proposed to me to trans-port some of our luggage in one of my prahus. Theoffer was gladly accepted, a liberal price paid, and similartempting conditions offered if they and a few men, knownto be at the station above, would unite in taking allour goods up that far. The following morning theystarted off. The Malays of these regions, who are mainly from theupper part of the Kapuas River in the western divisionand began to come here ten years previously, are physi-cally much superior to the Malays we brought, and forwork in the kihams are as fine as Dayaks. They remainhere for years, spending two or three months at a timein the utan. Djobing had been here four years and hada wife in his native country. There are said to be 150Malays engaged in
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