Unaccountable Panic--Man Overboard--Fishing--Coast Scenery--Baram Point--Floating Drift--Pretty Coast to Labuan--Thunder and Lightning Bay--Bar of the Brunei--River Scenery--The Capital--Little Children in Canoes--Floating Market--Kayan Attack--The Present Sultan’s Story--Fire-arms--Devastation of the Interior--Customs of the Kayans--Upas Tree--View of the Capital--The Fountains--The Baram--Kayan Stratagem--Wild Cattle--Banks of the River--Gading Hill--Ivory--Elephants on North-east Coast--Hunting--Startling Appearance--Town of Langusin--Salutes--First Interview--Graves--Wandering Kanowits--Appearance of the Kayans--Visit Singauding--Religion--Houses--Huge Slabs--Skulls--Women tattooed--Mats--Visit the Chiefs--Drinking Chorus--Extempore Song--Head-hunting--Effect of Spirits--Sacrifice--Ceremony of Brotherhood--Effect of Newly-cleared Jungle--War Dance--Firewood--Customs--Origin of Baram Kayans--Vocabularies--Trade--Birds’ Nests--Destruction of Wealth--Manners and Customs--Iron--Visit Edible Birds’ Nest Caves--The Caves--Narrow Escape--Two Kinds of Swallows--Neat House--Visit of Singauding--Visit to Si Obong--Her Dress--Hip-lace--Her Employments--Farewell Visit--Fireworks--Smelting Iron--Accident--Departure--Kayans Cannibals--Anecdotes--Former Method of Trading--Unwelcome Visitors 79 CHAPTER IV. THE LAND DAYAKS. Visit to the Left-hand Branch of the Sarawak River--Attack of Peguans--Sarawak River--Capture of English Ship--The Durian Fruit--Iron-wood Posts--Rapids--Rapid of the Corpse--Mountains--Village of San Pro--Lovely Scenery--Head-house--Cave--Upper Cave--Unfortunate Boast--Pushing up the Rapids--Story of the Datu Tamanggong--Invulnerable Men--How to become one--Grung Landing-place--Sibungoh Dayaks--Dayak Canoes--Lovely Scenery--Uses of the Bambu--Fish--Sharks in the Upper Waters--Repartee--Pigs Swimming--Farmhouses in Trees--Floods--Suspension Bridges--Chinese Traders--Dress of Land Dayaks--System of Forced Trade--Interesting Tribe--Story of the Murder of Pa Mua--The Trial--Painful Scene--Delightful Bathing--Passing the Rapids--Walk to Grung--Dayak Paths--Village of Grung--Warm Reception--Ceremonies--Lingua Franca--Peculiar Medicine--Prayer--Sacred Dance--Sprinkling Blood--Effect of former System of Government--Language 125 CHAPTER V. LAND DAYAKS OF SIRAMBAU.--THEIR SOCIAL LIFE.