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Title: Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922
Subjects: Ethnology -- Borneo Natural history -- Borneo Borneo -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aks movedup to our position, and next day the river ran high, so wedid not make a start. In the morning, after a fine bath, as I was about totake breakfast, a large party of visitors from Long Mahanapproached. They were unacquainted with the Malaytongue and showed obvious signs of embarrassment, butby distributing a little candy to the children and biscuitsto the adults harmony was soon established. Two un-usually attractive small girls wearing valuable bead neck-laces, who at first had appeared takut (frightened), un-concernedly seated themselves on their heels in front ofme. The others perched in a long row on two poleswhich they laid on the wet ground, all of them preparingto watch me eat breakfast. Among other things themenu included half a dozen small boiled potatoes broughtfrom Tandjong Selor and obtained from Central Java;they usually keep for four or five weeks and are a valuableaid in maintaining good health in the tropics. The Kenyahs had never seen i)otatoes before, and one
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A KRNVAHS SWEKTHKAKI REMOVING HIS EYEBROWS AND EYELASHES. LUN(iPELABAN, KAYAN RIVER

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