  CHAPTER I SARAWAK SIR JAMES BROOKE CHAPTER VII CHILD-BIRTH AND CHILDREN CHAPTER VIII MY SCHOOL IN THE JUNGLE CHAPTER XI TRAVELLING IN SARAWAK CHAPTER XIII THE "MANANG," OR WITCH-DOCTOR CHAPTER XIV NATIVE REMEDIES AND DYAK CHARMS CHAPTER XVII SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS CHAPTER XX SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCES CHAPTER XXII THREE DYAK LEGENDS CHAPTER XXIII SOME CURIOUS CUSTOMS CHAPTER XXIV THE FUTURE OF THE SEA DYAK IN SARAWAK GLOSSARY OF DYAK WORDS AND PHRASES WHICH OCCUR IN THE FOREGOING PAGES A Title: Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles Author: Edwin Herbert Gomes Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by MFR |
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SEVENTEEN YEARS
AMONG THE SEA DYAKS
OF BORNEO
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A Dyak Girl Dressed in all her Finery to Attend a Feast
She has in her hair a comb decorated with silver filigree work. Round her neck is a necklace of beads. The rings round her body are made of hoops of cane, round which little brass rings are arranged close together so that none of the cane is visible. These hoops are worn next to the body above the waist, and over the petticoat below. The silver coins fastened to this brass corset, and worn as belts round it, are the silver coins of the country. The petticoat is a broad strip of cloth, sewn together at the ends and having an opening at the top and bottom. It is fastened at the waist with a piece of string.
Seventeen Years Among
The Sea Dyaks of Borneo
A RECORD OF INTIMATE ASSOCIATION WITH
THE NATIVES OF THE BORNEAN JUNGLES
BY
EDWIN H. GOMES, M.A.
AND AN INTRODUCTION
BY
THE REVEREND JOHN PERHAM
FORMERLY ARCHDEACON OF SINGAPORE
WITH 40 ILLUSTRATIONS & A MAP
LONDON
SEELEY & CO. LIMITED
38 Great Russell Street
1911
TO
MY WIFE
TO WHOSE HELPFUL ENCOURAGEMENT
I OWE MUCH
