. Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. onsideredgood-looking. I saw one or two that were ratherpretty, but they were very young and feU madly in love with one of them and shewith him, and when I left there were two brokenhearts. Many of the little girls of about five andsix years old would have been regular pictures ifthey had only been cleaner. I made the discoverythat some of my Dayak friends were addicted tothe horrible habit of eating clay, and actuallyfound a regular little digging in the side of a hillwhere they worked to get these lumps of
. Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. onsideredgood-looking. I saw one or two that were ratherpretty, but they were very young and feU madly in love with one of them and shewith him, and when I left there were two brokenhearts. Many of the little girls of about five andsix years old would have been regular pictures ifthey had only been cleaner. I made the discoverythat some of my Dayak friends were addicted tothe horrible habit of eating clay, and actuallyfound a regular little digging in the side of a hillwhere they worked to get these lumps of reddishgrey clay, and soon caught some of the old meneating it. They declared that they enjoyed my empty tins (from tinned meats, etc.) werein great demand, and so to save jealousy I actuallydemoralized the Dayaks to the extent of intro-ducing the raffling system among them. Greatwas the excitement every evening when I raffledold tins and bottles. Dubi would hand the bits ofpaper and they would be a long time making uptheir minds which to take. One night Dubi. A DAYAK mourning ornament round waist. [220 POOR OLD COOKIE 221 overheard my Chinese cook telling some of theDayaks that the white tuan had no use forthese tins himself, that is why he gives themto you. This cook, whom I used to call Cookie, was agreat nuisance to me, but he was the most amusingcharacter I ever came across, and he was thesource of endless deUght to the Dayaks, whoenjoyed teasing him and jokingly threatened to cutofif his head, until he was almost paralyzed withfright and came and begged me to leave, as weshould aU have our heads cut off. After a weekor two his courage returned and I learned thatwhen I was out of the house he would stand on hishead for the amusement of the women and children,though he was by no means a young man. He soonbecame quite popular with the women, who foundhim highly amusing, and who were always in fits oflaughter whenever he talked. In the evenings hesometimes
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