Head-hunting—Women an incentive—Gruesome story—Marriage of Dyak Chiefs—Legend—Some customs necessitating a human head—A successful head-hunter not necessarily a hero—A dastardly crime—War expeditions—The spear token—My experience at a village in Krian—Dyak war costume—Weapons—The _Sumpit_—Poison for darts—Consulting omen birds—War-boats—Camping—War Council—Defences—War alarm—Ambushes—Decapitation and treatment of head—Return from a successful expedition—Women dancing—Two Christian Dyak Chiefs—Their views on the matter of head-taking 72-85 CHAPTER VI SOCIAL LIFE Social position of the women—Dyak food—Meals—Cooking food in bamboo—Laws with regard to leaving a Dyak house—Rule of the headman—A Dyak trial—Power of the headman in old days—Dyak wealth—Valuable jars—_Gusi_—_Naga_—_Rusa_—A convenient dream—Trading incident at Sebetan—Land tenure—Laws about fruit-trees—Slavery—Captives in war—Slaves for debt 86-95 CHAPTER VII CHILD-BIRTH AND CHILDREN The couvade among the Dyaks—Harm to the child—Ways of evading these restrictions—A Christian woman’s ideas on the subject—Witch-doctors and their methods—The waving of a fowl—Treatment of the mother and child—Infanticide—Bathing the child—Ceremony for insuring happiness to the child—Naming the child—Change of name—Children—Toys—Smallness of families—Reason 96-104 CHAPTER VIII MY SCHOOL IN THE JUNGLE Up-country mission schools—Education—The Saribas Dyaks eager to learn—School programme—What the boys were taught—Some schoolboy reminiscences—A youthful Dyak _manang_—The story of Buda—The opening of the Krian Mission and the Saribas Mission 105-119 CHAPTER IX MARRIAGE Courtship—Discussion where the married couple are to live—The fetching of the bride—The wedding ceremony—_Mlah Pinang_—Visit of the bride to her mother-in-law—Bride’s dress—Bridegroom—Old bachelors among the Dyaks—Age of marriage—Monogamy—Prohibitive degrees—Dyak view of marriage—Conjugal affection—Mischief-making mothers-in-law—Separation and reconciliation—Divorce—Adultery 120-132 CHAPTER X BURIAL RITES