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Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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their fascinations to inveigle the meninto drinking. No man is safe from them. Their brothers, friends, and even theirbetrothed, fall, as we have seen, victims totheir blandishments. They will make up toperfect strangers, get up a flirtation, andlavish all their enchantments upon themlike Circe of old, until they have reducedtheir helpless admirers to a state little bet-ter than that of the mythological swine.Even after the men have sunk on theground, and are incapable of raising the cupto their lips, the women think their task notquite completed, and pour the tuak downthe throats of the helpless men. In the Dyak Feast, which the artist has so finelydrawn on the opposite page, the appeal anddresses of these Eastern syrens are illustra-ted. Yet, although on such occasions they givethemselves over to utter drunkenness, theDyaks are a sober race, and except at thesefeasts, or when beset by women, they aresingularly temperate, the betel-nut supply-ing the place of all intoxicating liquor.
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A DYAK FEAST. (See pages Ui5,1146.) (1H7; CHAPTEE CXVIH. BORNEO. — Continued. ARCHITECTURE — MANUFACTURES. /LERIAL HOUSES — THE LONG HOUSE AND ITS ARRANGEMENTS — THE ORANG-KAYAs ROOM — STRUC-TURE OF THE FLOORING—REASONS FOR THE DYAK ARCHITECTURE—THE NIPA PALM AND ITSUSES—THE ATAPS — SALT AND SUGAR MANUFACTURE — ERECTION OF THE FIRST POST — VARI-OUS MODES OF PROCURING FIRE — CONSTRUCTION OF THE DYAK BRIDGE — A NARROW ESCAPE —MANUFACTURES—THE ADZE AXE OF THE DYAKS — ITS ANALOGY WITH THE BANYAI AXE —SMELTING AND FORGING IRON—BASKET MAKING—THE DYAK MAT — SPLITTING THE RATTAN —THE BORNEAN KNIFE, AND MODE OF USING IT—THE SACRED JARS AND THEIR PROPERTIES. The architecture of the Dyaks is very pe-culiar. The reader may find a Dyak villagerepresented on page 1153. In the first place, the houses are all builton posts, some of them twenty feet inheight, and the mode of access to them isby climbing up a notched pole, which an-swers the purpose of a ladd

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