CHAPTER V

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MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_Continued_.

Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings--Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs 109

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