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Title: Children of Borneo

Author: Edwin Herbert Gomes

Release Date: January 14, 2009 [EBook #27801]

Language: English

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CHILDREN OF BORNEO

_Uniform with this Volume_

CHILDREN OF INDIA
By JANET HARVEY KELMAN

CHILDREN OF CHINA
By C. CAMPBELL BROWN

CHILDREN OF AFRICA
By JAMES B. BAIRD

CHILDREN OF ARABIA
By JOHN CAMERON YOUNG

CHILDREN OF JAMAICA
By ISABEL C. MACLEAN

CHILDREN OF JAPAN
By JANET HARVEY KELMAN

CHILDREN OF EGYPT
By L. CROWTHER

CHILDREN OF CEYLON
By THOMAS MOSCROP

CHILDREN OF PERSIA
By MRS NAPIER MALCOLM

[Illustration: DYAK CHILDREN]

CHILDREN OF BORNEO

BY
EDWIN H. GOMES, M.A.
AUTHOR OF
"SEVENTEEN YEARS AMONG THE SEA DYAKS OF BORNEO"

[Illustration]

WITH EIGHT COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON
OLIPHANT, ANDERSON & FERRIER

I gratefully acknowledge the permission readily
granted by Messrs Seeley & Co. Ltd., to make use of
much matter that has already been published in my
book, "Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of
Borneo," and I would recommend that book to those
who wish for more information about Borneo and its
inhabitants.

EDWIN H. GOMES.

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS. EDINBURGH

To
LITTLE PAUL

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. The Island of Borneo--Jungles--The
Dyaks--Dyak Life in the Old Day 9

II. The Coming of the White Rajah--The
Missionaries 13

III. A Dyak Village House 18

IV. Dyak Babies and Children 23

V. Manner of Life--Occupation 28

VI. Head-Hunting 32

VII. Birds and Beasts in Borneo 37

VIII. Some Cur