Habitat of the Sea Dayaks--Start for the Lundu--Inland Passages--Fat Venison--The Lundu--Long Village House--Chinese Gardens--Picturesque Waterfall--The Lundu Dayaks--Their Village--Gradual Extinction of the Tribe--A Squall--Childbirth--Girl Bitten by a Snake--Mr. Gomez--His Tact--A Boa Seizes my Dog--Stories of Boa Constrictors--One Caught in a Cage--Invasion of a Dining-room--Capture of a large Boa--Boa and Wild Boar--Native Accounts--Madman and Snake--Boas used as Rat Catchers--Floating Islands--A Man found on one--Their Origin--The Batang Lupar--The Lingga--Alligators Dangerous--Method of Catching them--Their Size--Hair Balls--Death of an Acquaintance--The Balau Lads--The Orang-Utan--A large one killed--Banks of the River--The Fort at Sakarang--The late Mr. Brereton--Sakarang Head-hunting--Dayak Stratagem--Peace Ceremonies--Sacred Jars--Farmhouse--Love of Imitation--_Illustrated London News_--Women--Men--Poisoning--Workers in Gold and Brass--Anecdote--Rambi Fruit--Pigs Swimming--The Bore--Hunting Dogs--Wild Boar--Respect for Domestic Pig--Two Kinds of Deer--Snaring--Land and Sea Breezes--The Rejang--Lofty Millanau House--Human Sacrifices--Swings--Innumerable Mayflies--Kanowit Village--Kayan Mode of Attack--Kanowit Dayaks--Men with Tails--Extraordinary Effect of Bathing in the Nile--Treachery--Bier--Customs on the Death of a Relative--Curious Dance--Ceremonies on solemnizing Peace--Wild Tribes--Deadly Effect of the Upas 5 CHAPTER II. SOCIAL LIFE OF THE SEA DAYAKS. Ceremonies at the Birth of a Child--Infanticide--Desire for Children--A Talkative and Sociable People--Great Concord in Families--Method of Settling Disputes--Marriage Ceremonies--Pride of Birth--Chastity--Punishment of Indiscreet Lovers--Bundling and Company-keeping--Love Anecdotes--Separations--Division of Household Duties--Flirting--Divorce--Burials--Religion--Belief in a Supreme Being--Good and Evil Spirits--The Small-pox--Priests--Some dress as Women--Mourning--Sacrifices--Human Sacrifices--Unlucky Omens--Reconciliation--Belief in a Future State--The other World--Dayaks Litigious--Head-feast--Head-hunting--Its Origin--Horrible Revenge--Small Inland Expeditions--Cat-like Warfare--Atrocious Case--Large Inland Expeditions--War-boats--Edible Clay--Necessity for a Head--Dayaks very Intelligent--Slaves--Objections to Eating certain Animals, or Killing others--Change of Names--Degrees of Affinity within which Marriages may take place--Sickness--Cholera--Manufactures--Agriculture--Method of taking Bees’ Nests--Lying Heaps--Passports--Ordeals--Language 47 CHAPTER III. THE KAYANS OF BARAM.