Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . ticles are very plentiful down there, they said, and of-fered them at an astonishingly reasonable price. Malay is not spoken here, and we got on as best wecould—nevertheless the want of an interpreter was seri-ously felt. The chief himself spoke some and might haveserved fairly well, but he studiously remained away fromme, and even took most of the men from the kampong tomake prahus at another place. I was told that he wasafraid of me, and certainly his behaviour was puzzli
Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . ticles are very plentiful down there, they said, and of-fered them at an astonishingly reasonable price. Malay is not spoken here, and we got on as best wecould—nevertheless the want of an interpreter was seri-ously felt. The chief himself spoke some and might haveserved fairly well, but he studiously remained away fromme, and even took most of the men from the kampong tomake prahus at another place. I was told that he wasafraid of me, and certainly his behaviour was months later I was enlightened on this point bythe information that he had been arrested on account ofthe murder by spear of a woman and two men, a mostunusual occurrence among Dayaks, who, as a rule, neverkill any one in their own tribe. With the kampong well-nigh deserted, it soon became evident that nothing wasto be gained by remaining and that I would better changethe scene of my activities to Long Kai, another Penihingkampong further down the river. A small garrison had been established there, and by.
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