. Errance parmi les sauvages de la mer du Sud et à Bornéo et aux Philippines. Illustratedmagazines avec moi pour utiliser comme papiers pour les mypapillons, et ces derniers ont été une source de plaisir de plus pour les foules autour de moi dans les soirées.ils se sont comportés comme beaucoup de petits enfants, et ont fait rire sur les images. Theygénéralement regarda les images à l'envers, andeven puis ils semblaient trouver quelque chose d'amusingà leur sujet. Avec Dubi comme mon interprète Iused pour faire des histoires sur les images, et, pointant vers le portrait de quelques bien-knownactrice, décrit le nombre de maris shehad kUled; et IM

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. Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. illustratedmagazines with me to use as papers for mybutterflies, and these were a source of endlessdelight to the crowds around me in the evenings.They behaved like a lot of small children, androared with laughter over the pictures. Theygenerally looked at the pictures upside down, andeven then they seemed to find something amusingabout them. With Dubi as my interpreter Iused to make up stories about the pictures, and, pointing to the portrait of some well-knownactress, described the number of husbands shehad kUled; and Im afraid I grossly libelled manya well-known politician, general, or divine intelling the Dayaks how many heads they possessedor how many wives they owned, tiU it was quitea natural thing for me to join in their uproariousmerriment, as I pictured in my mind somevenerable bishop on the war-path. As is well known, the Dayak women all wearrings of brass around their waists. They arecalled gronong, and they are made of pliablerattan inside, with small brass rings fastened. .^? ^s o D <?< a 13 , 1| ID ^ -0-73 o o HEAD-HUNTERS HABITS 213 around the rattan. In the centre of each ringthere are generally two or three small red andblack rings of coloured rattan between the brassones. Some wore only four or five, while otherspossessed twenty or more, and then they ratherresembled a corset. Even the little girls of fouror five wore two or three of them. I noticed on my first arrival that the womenand some of the men seemed to have their teethplentifully filled with gold, but I soon found outthat it was brass that they had ornamented theirteeth with, a small piece being inserted in someway in the centre of each tooth. Their teeth aregenerally black from the continual chewing of thebetel-nut, and I noticed small children of four orfive years of age going in for this dirty habit, andstiU younger children smoking cigarettes, thecovering of which is made out of the dried leaf ofthe sago-pal

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