Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo

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Author

Gomes, Edwin Herbert, 1862-1944

Title

Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles

Credits

E-text prepared by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Iban (Bornean people)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57201

Release Date

May 23, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org )
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.AUTHOR’S NOTE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — SEVENTEEN YEARS AMONG THE SEA DYAKS OF BORNEO
6. 6.CHAPTER I SARAWAK—SIR JAMES BROOKE
7. 7.CHAPTER II THE DYAKS
8. 8.CHAPTER III MANNER OF LIFE
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE DYAK CHARACTER
10. 10.CHAPTER V HEAD-HUNTING
11. 11.CHAPTER VI SOCIAL LIFE
12. 12.CHAPTER VII CHILD-BIRTH AND CHILDREN
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII MY SCHOOL IN THE JUNGLE
14. 14.CHAPTER IX MARRIAGE
15. 15.CHAPTER X BURIAL RITES
16. 16.CHAPTER XI TRAVELLING IN SARAWAK
17. 17.CHAPTER XII OMENS AND DREAMS
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII THE “MANANG,” OR WITCH-DOCTOR
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV NATIVE REMEDIES AND DYAK CHARMS
20. 20.CHAPTER XV DYAK RELIGION
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI DYAK FEASTS
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII SONG AND MUSIC
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX THE DYAK ABROAD
25. 25.CHAPTER XX SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI DYAK FOLKLORE — The Story of the Mouse-Deer and other Animals who went out Fishing. — The Story of the Mouse-Deer, the Deer and the Pig. — Sea Dyak Proverbs.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII THREE DYAK LEGENDS — I. Danjai and the Were-Tiger’s Sister. — II. The Story of Siu, who first Taught the Dyaks to Plant Paddy and to Observe the Omens of Birds. — III. Pulang-Gana, and how He came to be Worshipped as the God of the Earth.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII SOME CURIOUS CUSTOMS
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV THE FUTURE OF THE SEA DYAK IN SARAWAK
30. 30.FOOTNOTES
31. 31.GLOSSARY OF DYAK WORDS AND PHRASES WHICH OCCUR IN THE FOREGOING PAGES — A — B — C — D — E — G — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — R — S — T — U
32. 32.INDEX

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