INDEX
Reading edition
A
Abroad, the Dyak, 333
Achar, 54
Adultery, 69, 132
Affection, domestic, 70
Ah Choy, 241, 248
Ah Fook Cheyne, 249
Ajat, 222
Amusements, sports and, 220
Apai Saloi, 254
Armadillo, 153
Articles buried with the dead, 138
Attap, 42, 150
Augury, 161
Axe, Dyak, 50, 51
B
Bad times, 326
Bailey, D. J. S., 184
Baiya, 138
Basket-making, 53
Bat, 153
Batu bintang, 188
ilau, 165, 166, 190
krang jiranau, 189
krat ikan sembilan, 188
kudi, 205
lintar, 189
nitar, 189
Beards, 39
Bebaju besi, 171
Bebandong api, 171
Bebayak, 170
Beburong raia, 171
Bedungai, 225
Begiling lantai, 171
Bejampong, 153
Bejit-Manai, 300
Bekliti, 178
Belang-Pinggang, 300
Bepancha, 170
Bepantap Buyu, 172
Beragai, 152
Beremaung, 171
Berenchah, 169
Bermong, 226
Besudi, 178
Betanam pentik, 169
Betel-nut, 151
Betepas, 169
Betiang garong, 170
Betiti tendai, 171
Bilian trees, 151, 211
Blikan, 231
Bliong, 50, 51
Blood, a drop of, 159
Blood-letting, 183
Blow-pipe, 34, 78, 279
Boat-building, 49
Boat songs, 225
swamped, 247
travelling, 145
war, 79
Bore, tidal, 146
Bornean jungles, 21
Boys, Dyak, 103, 105, 107
Brooke, Sir James, 21, 24
Rajah, 26
Brooke, Sir Charles, 29
Rajah, 29
Bui Nasi, 300
Bukitans, 34
Bunga Jawa, 300
Bunsu Burong, 286
Katupong, 286
Burial-ground, 136
Burial rites, 133
Buyu, 172
C
Camphor-tree, 151, 238
Camphor-working, 238
Cane ladders, 237
Captain Keppel, 27
Captives, 94
Caves, edible birds’-nest, 236
Ceremonies, 243
manang, 166, 169
Chambers, Bishop, 116, 118
Chanang, 230
Change of name, 103
Character, the Dyak, 61, 327
Childbirth and children, 96
Child-naming, 102
Children, kindness to, 62
Christian Dyak chiefs, 84
Mission, introduction of, 28
Circumcision, 322
Cock-fighting, 210, 223
Cocoanut palm, 151
Coffin, 136
Collecting edible birds’-nests, 236
Contents of a Dyak medicine-chest, 184
Cooking, 87, 241
Courtship, 120
Couvade, 96
Crocodile, 149
— catching, 56
Customs, some curious, 316
D
Dance, sword, 221, 229
war, 222, 229
Dancing women, 84
Danjai and the Were-Tiger’s sister, 265
Darts, poisoned, 79
Dasu, Dr., 185
Debt, slaves for, 95
Debts, 95
Decapitation, 83
Deer, 153
Depilation, 39
“Dictionary of the Sea Dyak Language,” 184
Dido, H.M.S., 27
Dispute in Krian, 319
Diving ordeal, 316
Divorce, 69
Domestic affection, 70
Dreams, 161
omens and, 152
Dress, men’s, 36, 78
war, 78
women’s, 37
Drinking, 212
Drums, 229
Durian, 151, 319
“Dyak,” the word, 33
charms and native remedies, 182
chiefs, Christian, 84
marriage of, 73
feasts, 209
folklore, 252
headman or chief, rule of, 88
medicine-chest, contents of, 184
religion, 194
trial, 89
village house, 42, 184
wealth, 90
Dyaks, the, 33
E
Ebony-tree, 151
Education, 105
Embuas, 153
Emplawa Jawa, 293
Engkratong, 231
Engkrumong, 230
Engkrurai, 230
Ensera, 252
Ensuling, 231
Expedition, head-hunting, 75
Experiences, some personal, 240
F
Fables, 252
Failures, 326
Families, smallness of, 104
Farming, rice, 325
Father-in-law, 125
Feast, the bird, 210
in honour of the dead, 142, 216
Feasts connected with farming, 215
head-taking, 210
Dyak, 209
social, 219
Feeding the dead, 135
Fines, 89
Fireplace, 44
Fishing, 54
tuba, 55
Fish-traps, 297
Folklore, Dyak, 252
Food, 87
Football, 221
Forests, tropical, 21
Form of greeting, 323
Frugality, 63
Fruit-trees, 94
Future existence, belief in, 133, 143,
of the Sea Dyak in Sarawak, the, 324
G
Galanggang, 224
Games, 220
Gawai Antu, 142
Batu, 215
Benih, 215
Gajah, 215
Ijok, 214
Mandi Rumah, 219
Nyimpan Padi, 216
Pala, 210
Tenyalang, 210
Ginselan, 203
Girgasi, 199
Girls, Dyak, 103
God of the earth: Pulang Gana, and how he came to be worshipped as the, 300
Gods, 195
Gomes, B.D., the Rev. W. H., 29
Gongs, 229
Grades of manangs, 178
Graves, 136, 138
Greeting, form of, 323
Gusi, 91
Gutta-trees, 151
Gutta-working, 235
H
Habitations of spirits, 210
Head-hunting, 23, 72
expedition, 75
legend of, 73
Head-taking, feasts connected with, 210
Headman, 265
power of, 90
rule of, 88
Heroes, mythical, 253
Honesty, 63
Honey-bear, 149
Hornbill, 211
Hose, D.D., Bishop, 98
Hospitality, 67
House-building, 47
House, Dyak village, 42
Howell, Rev. W., 184
Human heads, 213
necessary for wedding feast, 266
Hunting, 53, 296
I
Incantations, 195, 213, 226, 229
Infanticide, 100
Initiation of manangs, 178
Introduction of Christian missions, 28
Invisible spirits, 227
Invocations, 195, 213, 226, 228
J
Jala, 54
Jars, old, 45, 90
Jumping, 224
Jungle, Bornean, 149
lost in the, 249
Jungle-path, 148
K
Kabayah, 35
Kabong, 249
Kadjangs, 50, 146, 148, 150
Kana, 226, 252, 253
Katupong, 152
Kayans, 34
Keppel, Captain, afterwards Admiral, 27
Kinyehs, 34
Klieng, 253
Krian, dispute in, 319
Mission, 119
Kumang, 253
Kunsil Negri, 30
Kutok, 153
L
Langan, 146
Legend of head-hunting, 73
Legends, 252
three Dyak, 264
Leprosy, 322
Life beyond the grave, 133, 143
of the Dyak, 324
Limban, 229
Lizard, 153
Lobon-lobon, 318
Love-song, 225
Lumpang, 216
Lupong, 165, 187
M
Madness, 322
Maias, 74, 149
Mali, 197
Manang, or witch-doctor, the, 163
ceremonies, 166, 169
Manangs, 99, 182, 227
not buried, 143
Marriage, 120
Dyak view of, 128
Mat-making, 52
Meals, Dyak, 87
Medicine-chest, Dyak, 165
the contents of a Dyak, 184
Mencha, 221
Mesney, the Rev. W. R., 116
Metamorphosis, 287
Milanaus, 33
Missionary, the itinerant, 240
Missions among the Dyaks, 328
introduction of Christian, 28
Mission schools, 329
Mlah pinang, 124
Morals, Dyak, 68, 121
Mother-in-law, 125, 131
Mouse-deer and other animals who went out fishing, the story of the, 255
Mouse-deer, the deer, and the pig, the story of the, 259
Mourning, 139, 285
putting off, 217
song of, 228
Muruts, 34
Music, song and, 225
Musical instruments, 222, 229
Mythical heroes, 253
Mythology, Dyak, 264
N
Naga, 91
Name, change of, 103
Naming the child, 102
Native remedies and Dyak charms, 182
Nemuai Ka Sabayan, 170
Nendak, 153
Nets, 54
Ngelai, 253
Ngelembayan, 170
Nibong palm, 150
Nipa palm, 150
North-east monsoon, 247
O
Oars, 145
Offertory, 245
Omen birds, 47, 152, 234, 238, 298
animals, 153
Omens and dreams, 152
of birds, the story of Siu, who first taught the Dyaks to plant paddy and to observe the, 278
Orang-Utan, 74, 149
Ordeal, diving, 316
trial by, 316
P
Paddles, 50, 79, 145
Paddy, 278
planting, 297, 325
Pagar Api, 166, 168, 174
Palms, 150
Pana, 139, 141
Pandong, 213
Papau, 153
Past, a picture from the, 22
Pelandai, 225
Pelian, 164, 168, 169
Pendam, 136
Pengap, 195, 213, 228, 326
Perham, the Rev. J., 119
Personal experiences, some, 240
Petara, 194, 197
Pinang, 282
Mlah, 124
Pirates, 23
Piring, 202
Planting paddy, 297, 325
Prayer-houses, 244
Preparations for diving ordeals, 317
for feasts, 210
Proverbs, Dyak, 261
Pulang Gana, 137
how he came to be worshipped as the god of the earth, 300
Punans, 34
Puni, 320
Python, 149, 153
Q
Questions, 243
R
Rajah Brooke, 26, 29
Muda Hassim, 25
Shua, 305
Rapids, 147
Rat, 153
Religion, Dyak, 194
Rotan, 151, 235
Royalist, the yacht, 25
Rule of the Dyak headman or chief, 88
Rusa, 91
S
Sabak, 142
Sabayan, 228
Sacrifices, 202
Sago palm, 151
Salampandai, 174, 197, 228
Sampun, 247
Sand-banks, 146
Saribas Mission, 119
Sarong, 35
Saut, 173
Schoolboy reminiscences, 119, 175, 249
School in the jungle, my, 105
programme, 108
Sea Dyak in Sarawak, the future of the, 324
Seragunting, 278, 290
Seregendah, 306
Seru, 34
Serunai, 231
Services, 244, 245
Shua, Rajah, 305
Singalang Burong, 160, 196, 227, 284
Singapore, 233
Singing, 225
Sireh, 282
Siu, the story of, 278
Slavery, 94
Slaves, adoption of, 95
for debt, 95
Smallness of families, 104
Smallpox, 191
Social life, 86
position of the women, 86
Some curious customs, 316
personal experiences, 240
Song and music, 225
of mourning, 140, 228
of the head feast, 213
the wailers’, 140, 228
Songs, 229
Soul, the, 177
Spears, fishing, 55
Spinning-tops, 223
Spirit of the Winds, 228
Spirits, 183, 189, 227, 242
Sports and amusements, 220
Stones of wrath, 205
Stories, Sea Dyak, 252
Story of Buda, 114
Story of the mouse-deer and other animals who went out fishing, the, 255
Story of the mouse-deer, the deer, and the pig, the, 259
Story of Siu, who first taught the Dyaks to plant paddy and to observe the omens of birds, the, 278
Sumping, 141
Sumpit, or blow-pipe, 34, 78, 279
Superstitions of the Dyaks, 242
Swallows, 236
Swimming, 223
T
Tajau, 91
Tattooing, 37
Tawak, 229
Teaching the Dyaks, 242
Teeth, 38
Temudok, 247
Tenyalang, 211
Tidal bore, 146
Time, 322
Tops, spinning, 103, 295
Toys, 103
Traps, 53
Travel, love of, 233
Travelling, 145, 247
in Sarawak, 145
Trial, a Dyak, 89
by ordeal, 316
Tropical forests, 21
Truthfulness, 66
Tuba, 56
fishing, 56, 210
Tugong bula, 67
Tujoh, catechist, 113
U
Ukits, 34
Ulit, 139
Unselfishness, 70
V
Village house, Dyak, 42
Visit to a Dyak house, 240, 246
W
Wailers, professional, 140, 218, 228
Wailers’ song, 140
War boat, 79, 266
War costume, 78
council, 76, 81
songs, 225
spear, 76
Warfare, Dyak, 72, 297
Wealth, Dyak, 90
Weaving, 52
Wedding, Dyak, 122
Were-Tiger, 267
Were-Tiger’s sister, Danjai and the, 265
Winds, Spirit of the, 228, 229
Women, social position of, 86
Women’s work, 46, 51, 62
Work, men’s, 46, 325
women’s, 46, 62, 324
Wrestling, 224, 295
THE END
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