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Title: Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines

Author: H. Wilfrid Walker

Release Date: March, 2001 [Etext #2564]
Posting Date November 4, 2009 [EBook #2564]

Language: English

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Wanderings Among South Sea Savages
And in Borneo and the Philippines

By
H. Wilfrid Walker
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
With forty-eight plates from photographs by the author and others

London
Witherby & Co.
1909

To
My brother Charles
This record of my wanderings
in which he took so deep an interest,
is affectionately dedicated.

PREFACE

In a book of this kind it is often the custom to begin by making
apologies. In my case I feel it to be a sheer necessity. In the first
place what is here printed is for the greater part copied word for
word from private letters that I wrote in very simple language in
Dayak or Negrito huts, or in the lonely depths of tropical forests, in
the far-off islands of the Southern Seas. I purposely made my letters
home as concise as possible, so that they could be easily read, and in
consequence have left out much that might have been interesting. It is
almost unnecessary to mention that when I wrote these letters I had
no thought whatever of writing a book. If I had thought of doing so,
I might have mentioned more about the customs, ornaments and weapons of
the natives and have written about several other subjects in greater
detail. As it is, a cursory glance will show that this book has not
the slightest pretence of being "scientific." Far from its being
so, I have simply related