CHAP. XIX.--Borneo and the Borneans--installation of a Dayak-rajah--_Hot_ council and _Cold_ council--ceremony of election as described by Baiah Brooke--“may the government be cold”--a visit to the chief of the Grungs--capture by the old women--revolting customs--a Dayak dance--more physicking--Corea and the Great Loo Choo Islands--the chief of Corea--his visit to the British ship “Lyra”--dignified behaviour of the chief--his uproarious attendants--he orders an arrest--a cheap entertainment--punishment of the arrested one--the chief loses his temper and makes free use of his rod of office--the court of king Finow--marriage of his eldest daughter to the great chief Tooitonga--the bride’s anointing and her bridal robes of superfine mats--the bridesmaids--the marriage feast--twenty baked hogs--the music and dancing--King John of Adelaide, Australia--his death and trussing and roasting--horrible ceremony--The roast king’s dutiful _lubras_--a mummy “up a gum tree”--King John the thickest headed king ever known--his skull to prove it--dying fate of the common Bushman--enticing away the “spirit that kills”--the Bushman’s grave--Bushman mourning customs. Pages 54–66. PART VIII. SAVAGE M.D’s. CHAP. XX.--The science of surgery and medicine in savage lands--the M.D. in Polynesia--how to cure a broken neck--straightening a dislocated vertebra--trepanning with a bit of cocoa-nut shell--pigs’ brains a substitute for human--the sick man in Figi--summary method of disposing of troublesome invalids--“be reasonable and let some one help you out of your misery”--queer physic for a sick princess--the patient finally strangled--tender treatment of a shipwrecked mariner--singular malice of the Figian sick--the doctor in Samoa--no medicines used--strange predictions by dying Samoans--the Tokelau man who went up into the moon--a physician for every ailment--“confess, and throw out”--an infallible method of extracting a spear--Polynesian _disease makers_--the mystery of _nohak_ burning--novel way of burning an enemy to death--how sickness is dealt with among the Namaquas of Southern Africa--The old women whom Moffat the missionary found--“I am old and feeble and no longer of any use”--the sick little Makalolo--nobody’s child--Galton and the calculating savage--unable to count over ten--how the difficulty is overcome--dentistry in Damara land--the traveller Galton nearly a victim--hauling till “something” gives way--the doctor in old Kalabar--how the Kalabeese takes his physic--Doctor Abiadiong--how he operates with his magic beads--burying a dog alive to save a sick man--how to cheat the demon of small-pox--the M.D. among the Indians of North America--qualifications of a Pawnee doctor--a case witnessed by the traveller Murray--how to cure