Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . we prt)bably would need two weeks for the journey toDjudjang from where, under good weather conditions,three days poling should bring us to Tamaloe. He hadonce been obliged to spend nearly three months on thistrip. We spent one day here, while all our goods were beingtaken on human backs to a place some distance above thekiham. Four Malays and one Penyahbong wanted rem-edies for diseases they professed to have. The latterseemed really ill and had to be excused from work. Th
Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . we prt)bably would need two weeks for the journey toDjudjang from where, under good weather conditions,three days poling should bring us to Tamaloe. He hadonce been obliged to spend nearly three months on thistrip. We spent one day here, while all our goods were beingtaken on human backs to a place some distance above thekiham. Four Malays and one Penyahbong wanted rem-edies for diseases they professed to have. The latterseemed really ill and had to be excused from work. Therest said they suffered from demum (malaria), a wordthat has become an expression for most cases of indis-position, and I gave them quinine. The natives cravethe remedies the traveller carries, which they think willdo them good whether needed or not. Much annoyance is experienced from Malays in out-of-the-way places presenting their ailments, real or fan-cied, to the travellers attention. The Dayaks, not beingforward, are much less annoying, though equally desirousof the white mans medicine. An Ot-Danum once wanted. y. .2
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