Four classes of feasts—Preparations—Feasts connected with: 1, Head-taking; 2, Farming; 3, The dead; 4, Dreams, etc.—House-warming—Social feasts 209-219 CHAPTER XVII SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS Dyak games—Football—War Dance—Sword Dance—Dyak music— Cock-fighting—Tops-“Riding the tidal bore”—Swimming—Trials of strength 220-224 CHAPTER XVIII SONG AND MUSIC Love of music—Love songs—Boat songs—War songs—Incantations at Dyak feasts—The song of mourning—Musical instruments 225-232 CHAPTER XIX THE DYAK ABROAD Love of travel—“The innocents abroad”—Gutta-hunting—Collecting canes—Hunting for edible birds’-nests—Camphor-working 233-239 CHAPTER XX SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCES The itinerant missionary—Visit to a Dyak house—Reception—Cooking—Servants—The meal—Teaching the Dyaks—Christians—Services—Prayer-houses—Offertory—Reception of the missionary—Dangers of sea travelling during the north-east monsoon—My boat swamped—In the jungle—Losing my way—A Dyak’s experience 240-251 CHAPTER XXI DYAK FOLKLORE Sea Dyak stories—_Ensera_—_Kana_—The mouse-deer and the tortoise—Klieng—Kumang—Apai Saloi—The cunning of the mouse-deer—The mouse-deer and other animals who went out fishing—The mouse-deer, the deer and the pig—Sea Dyak proverbs 252-263 CHAPTER XXII THREE DYAK LEGENDS Dyak fairy tales and legends—I. DANJAI AND THE WERE-TIGER’S SISTER—II. THE STORY OF SIU, who first taught the Dyaks to observe the omens of birds—III. PULANG GANA, and how he came to be worshipped as the god of the earth 264-315 CHAPTER XXIII SOME CURIOUS CUSTOMS Trial by ordeal—Diving contests—A diving contest at Krian—A Dyak superstition—Names—Fruit found by the pathway—Circumcision—Fishing and hunting superstition—Madness—Leprosy—Time—Form of greeting 316-323 CHAPTER XXIV THE FUTURE OF THE SEA DYAK IN SARAWAK The Sea Dyak—Work—Bad times—Cheerfulness—The view from within—The Sea Dyak’s future—Mission work among them—Government—Development in the immediate future 324-331 GLOSSARY 332-337 INDEX 338-343 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS