Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . y. e- I a: 1> H I r E - 3 X — H o = 5 o?; ON THE ISAU RIVER (yj caught; but if the right-hand piece is longer than the left,all is well and much fish will be the result. The assemblage was chewing betel, smoking tobacco,and with hopeful patience anticipating a successful out-come, while one chief after another vainly attempted theaugury. Only men who have taken heads are permittedto make divinations of fire at the tuba-fishing, and if allthe elders have tried and failed
Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . y. e- I a: 1> H I r E - 3 X — H o = 5 o?; ON THE ISAU RIVER (yj caught; but if the right-hand piece is longer than the left,all is well and much fish will be the result. The assemblage was chewing betel, smoking tobacco,and with hopeful patience anticipating a successful out-come, while one chief after another vainly attempted theaugury. Only men who have taken heads are permittedto make divinations of fire at the tuba-fishing, and if allthe elders have tried and failed the fishing is delayed oneday. The same augury is used when dogs have run the left-hand piece is the longer, the dog is dead; if ofthe same size, the dog will be found at a distant futuretime; but if the right is the longer, the animal will be re-covered very soon. The reading of pigs liver in regardto the present or the future is used more by the Kayanthan by the Kenyah. It was after nine oclock in the morning when successwas attained, and the fishers all suddenly of them carried beaten bar
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