CHAPTER XXIV
THE FUTURE OF THE SEA DYAK IN SARAWAK
The Sea Dyak—Work—Bad times—Cheerfulness—The view from within—The Sea Dyak’s future—Mission work among them—Government—Development in the immediate future.
There are occasions when one who has lived among a people like the Dyaks, and has learnt to know and to love them, looks forward into the coming years and tries to picture what is in store for them. Those who have read the preceding pages will be able to form some idea of the Dyaks as they are, and know their manner of life, and to a certain extent, I hope, their modes of thought. In this chapter I shall say something of the probable future of the Sea Dyak in Sarawak. Let me first recall some features of the home life of the average Dyak at the present day.
He marries at an early age, and lives in a long Dyak village house with his wife and children. His wife since her marriage has grown into a tired-looking, untidy woman, very different from the bright merry girl of ten years ago. How can she help it? She has four children to look after, and the youngest is still an infant, who needs a great deal of her attention. She has to fetch the water required, and do the cooking for the family. She has to attend to the drying and pounding of the paddy, and convert it into the rice for their daily food. In addition to all this, there is the worry and commotion connected with having to move the household for some months each year to the little hut put up in their paddy-farm some little distance away.
The Sea Dyak has year after year to grow as much paddy as possible. He rises on work-days early in the morning, partakes of his frugal meal of rice and salt, or rice and salt fish, varied, if he be very lucky, by a piece of wild pig’s flesh or venison, which he has received as a gift or bought from some hunting friend. His wife bundles up for him his midday meal in the spathe of the Penang palm, and he goes off to his work, returning home late in the evening.
There are days when he does not go to work on his paddy-farm, but spends his time in getting firewood or mending things in his room, or in sitting about in the common veranda chatting with his friends.
When the paddy has grown a little, and the time for weeding draws near, the family remove to the little hut put up in the paddy-field. In the weeding the Sea Dyak is helped by his wife, the younger children being left in charge of the elder for the greater part of the day, while their parents are at work. When the weeding has been done, the family return to the long Dyak house for a month or so; then they go back to their hut to watch the ripening paddy and guard it against attacks of birds and beasts.
Paddy-planting is the chief occupation of every Sea Dyak, but he has plenty of time for other things, and his life is not quite so monotonous as may be supposed. The actual work of paddy-planting, and things connected with it, such as the building of farm-huts and the getting ready of farming implements, takes up seven or perhaps eight months of the year. The Sea Dyak has, therefore, a certain amount of time during which he can visit his friends, make boats, or hunt for jungle produce.
On certain occasions the Sea Dyaks muster in great force. At a feast a large number of them appear dressed in such finery as they possess, and they eat more than is good for them, and drink enough bad Dyak _tuak_ (spirit) to make them very sick and to give them a bad headache for the next few days. At a large _tuba_-fishing crowds of them congregate with their hand-nets and fish-spears, and a pleasant sort of picnic is spent, attended, if they are fortunate, with the procuring of much fish.
The Sea Dyak has his bad times. When he has had a bad crop, he has to think of some means of raising money—not for luxuries in dress and food, but for the plain necessaries of rice and salt upon which many Dyaks have to live for several months in the year. On these occasions he will work for some Chinaman at the nearest bazaar for a low wage, or sell firewood to them for whatever they will give. If he possess such things, he sells some old brass gun or gong to buy food for his family. If he be reduced to borrowing paddy from his neighbours, he will have to pay back the following year double the amount he has received.
Below the class of industrious workers whom I have tried to depict, there is a lower stratum consisting of the failures. These are the lazy Dyaks, the poor workers, who have never by any possible chance enough paddy at the harvest to last them through the year; who live perpetually in an atmosphere of debt; who eke out their livelihood by selling wild-ferns and bamboo-shoots for the trifling payment in paddy that people will give for such things; who live a hugger-mugger life, depending a good deal on the charity of their neighbours. Of this class I say nothing. It is not numerous, and does not come within the scope of this chapter. Another class which I pass over consists of the few rich men, whose wealth is continually increasing, who sell paddy year after year, and, when there is more work than they can conveniently do, can always afford to get extra labour by paying for it. The class I am dealing with is neither rich nor poor, and is to be met with in large numbers in any Dyak community.
The Dyak is cheerful and contented with his life. If his lot is a hard and uneventful one, he is ignorant of any other, and is quite satisfied with it. He knows little of the outside world. He reads no books or newspapers. The scope of his conversation is limited to matters of farming or of boat-building, varied perhaps by some local Dyak scandal, or some experience he may have gone through when, in his younger days, before he settled down as a sober married man, he went out gutta-hunting in distant lands. He has no wish to improve himself. His father and grandfather lived in long Dyak houses, and what was good enough for them is good enough for him. Why should he worry himself about building better houses, or farming in some new and improved way? He will not meddle with matters that are too high for him; and yet, notwithstanding this calm and even existence that he leads from childhood to the grave, those who are most interested in the Sea Dyak must feel that his life is not what it ought to be, that it shows few signs of progress, and is too stagnant to be healthy.
They do not suppose him to be a “fortuitous aggregation of atoms that will shortly be dispersed throughout space.” They believe that there is something Divine in him holding those fleeting atoms together, and making them one, and that he is journeying through a world of tragic meaning to the significance of which he seems to be for ever blind. They long to see him brought under the elevating and purifying influence of Christianity.
It may be asked: What are the Missions, Church of England and Roman Catholic, doing to elevate the Sea Dyak? I believe they are doing the best they can, but there are many things to contend against. First, there is the natural inability of the Dyak to keep his attention fixed upon one subject for any length of time, and so it is difficult to prevent the conversation from drifting into some commonplace topic when one is talking about serious matters. Then, again, when are they to be taught? They usually come home from their work late in the evening, and then they are tired, and take no interest in anything, being greatly in need of rest. It is at all times difficult to have a quiet conversation in a Dyak house. The common veranda is suitable for many things, but it is far too noisy to be convenient for teaching. They are often away from their homes for months, and the Missionary, who generally has a large field to cover, finds he cannot visit many villages in his parish more than once in three months. How much of such teaching is likely to be remembered? Of course, things are better where the Church and Mission House are. There regular services are held, and these the Sea Dyak has the opportunity of attending. He can also come up to the Mission House and talk over matters with the Missionary in charge, or the Schoolmaster, or the Catechist. But the number of Mission Houses with resident Missionaries among the large and scattered population of Sea Dyaks in Sarawak is but small.
The up-country Mission Schools, which the Government liberally support, admit boys at an early age, when they are most susceptible to the reception of new ideas. Here they are away from Dyak surroundings, and live with the Missionary and Schoolmaster. One naturally hopes that each of these boys returning to his family will be an example to them, leading them into the right way, and no doubt the old schoolboys have an influence for good, in more ways than one, on the homes to which they return. There are, indeed, among the Christian Sea Dyaks of Sarawak some striking examples of an intelligent reception of the truth, and of a faith which is a living personal force governing their lives. But, unhappily, these cases are few as compared with the bulk of the population, and the people live such an unsettled life that missionary effort, as it exists in Sarawak at the present time, can but touch a small proportion of them, and, unless greatly reinforced, cannot affect, to any very considerable extent, the future of the Sea Dyak.
The Government, by maintaining discipline in the different districts, by punishing crime and regulating trade, is no doubt instilling into the mind of the people important principles of law and order, and it has suppressed the atrocious crimes of piracy and head-hunting. The importation of Hakka Chinese to show the Dyaks how paddy ought to be planted is an important move in the right direction, and will conduce to their prosperity if only they can be persuaded to submit to instruction. But the future of the Sea Dyak even as regards material well-being is somewhat doubtful. There are those who say that he is slowly, but none the less surely, improving, and that he will at no very distant time reach the stage of progress to which most of the Malays in the country have attained; that his means of earning a livelihood then will not be confined to paddy-planting and occasionally working jungle produce, but that he will work sago, and also engage in fishing and boat-building on a large scale. Others, however, mutter dark things concerning the Sea Dyak’s primitive methods of farming and his unwillingness to give them up, and they paint a dismal picture of villages crowded in the distant future by half-starved men and women, living on worn-out land which will not bear abundant crops, as in the old days, a weakly and sickly race, debilitated by insufficiency of food.
Whatever may be the ultimate fate of the Sea Dyak, that events will move on certain lines in the immediate future seems to be fairly probable. The Sea Dyak will go on living in the same kind of house as his ancestors had—much the same kind of life year after year. He will go on farming in his present primitive way till the soil around is worn out; then he will ask leave of the Government, as has been done in many cases lately, to remove to some new and uncultivated country, and to be allowed to cut down the jungle on the hills there. Enormous tracts of lowland jungle exist in the lower reaches of the rivers on whose banks the Sea Dyaks live; but though they are industrious enough to plant their paddy on swampy soil which was cleared of jungle generations ago, they do not seem to care to cut down lowland jungle and prepare such land for planting. No doubt the reason is that it is harder work, and that after the trees are felled, it is six or seven years before the roots have rotted, and the soil has settled, and the land is fit for planting paddy on. What the Sea Dyaks like is to be allowed to remove to some country with plenty of wooded hills. They prefer planting paddy on the hills to clearing the lowland jungle, and waiting till the swampy land is fit for planting. The old sequence of events will repeat itself. The new land, rich virgin soil at first, will, under his devastating hand, soon become exhausted and worn out. It does not take long to impoverish land if no attempt is made to enrich it.
That these melancholy forebodings may never be fulfilled must be the earnest wish of all who have in some way or other come into contact with the Sea Dyak—a warm-hearted, hospitable, cheery figure, satisfied with little, living in the present, with no thought of the future, quite content if he have food to eat and tobacco to smoke, and yet, for this very reason, because he is so satisfied with his lot, most unwilling to admit new ideas, seemingly for ever unconscious of the significance of his life, and ignorant of the infinite possibilities for good or evil which exist in him.
FOOTNOTES
[1] “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground” (Gen. ii. 7). In this respect Dyak tradition corresponds with the Biblical account.
[2] Rice in the husk.
[3] _Pinang_, betel-nut.
[4] _Sireh_, a kind of pepper-leaf which the Dyaks are fond of eating with betel-nut.
[5] The Dyaks are fond of rhyming names, which often have no special meaning.
GLOSSARY OF DYAK WORDS AND PHRASES
WHICH OCCUR IN THE FOREGOING PAGES
A
=Achar=, a spoon-bait.
=Akal plandok=, the cunning of the _plandok_ or mouse-deer.
=Anggat=, a term of endearment used in addressing a boy.
=Antu=, a spirit; the dead.
=Ari ni nuan?= “From whence are you (come)?” A form of greeting.
=Attap=, a leaf roof made from the leaves of the _nipa_ palm.
B
=Baiya=, goods put aside upon the owner’s death and placed upon or within his grave.
=Banghong=, a Dyak boat.
=Baru=, a tree with fibrous bark.
=Batu=, a stone.
=Batu bintang=, “star stone.”
=Batu ilau=, “stone of light.”
=Batu krang jiranau=, the petrified section of _jiranau_ (Zingeberad?).
=Batu krat ikan sembilan=, the petrified section of the _sembilan_ fish.
=Batu kudi=, “stones of wrath.”
=Batu lintar=, thunderbolt.
=Batu nitar=, thunderbolt.
=Bebaju besi=, “wearing an iron coat.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Bebandong api=, “displaying fire.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Bebayak=, making a _bayak_ or iguana. Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Beburong raia=, “making or acting the adjutant bird.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Begiling lantai=, “rolled up in the flooring.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Bekliti=, opening. One of the ceremonies of initiation of a _manang_, or witch-doctor.
=Belelang=, to wander about; to visit a far country.
=Benih=, seed.
=Bepancha=, “making a _pancha_, or swing.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Beremaung=, “acting the tiger.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Berencha=, “making an assault.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Berua=, “swinging.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Besi=, iron.
=Besudi=, “feeling or touching.” One of the ceremonies of initiation of _manang_, or witch-doctor.
=Betanam pentik=, “planting a _pentik_, or wooden representation of a man.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Betepas=, “sweeping.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Betiang garong=, “making a post for souls.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Betiti tendai=, “walking on the _tendai_, or bar on which cotton is placed in weaving.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Betukup rarong=, “to split open the coffin.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Bilian=, iron-wood; the only wood which the white ants do not attack.
=Bilik=, a room.
=Bliong=, a Dyak tool, which can be used both as an adze and an axe.
=Bubong=, a cage.
C
=Chanang=, a brass gong, smaller than the _tawak_.
D
=Dandong=, a shawl; a _sarong_, or long skirt.
=Duku=, a chopper; a sword.
=Durian=, a fruit very much liked by the Dyaks.
E
=Embuas=, name of an omen bird.
=Endun=, a term of endearment applied to girls.
=Engkratong=, a musical instrument resembling a guitar.
=Engkrumong=, a set of eight small brass gongs, each sounding a different note, arranged in a frame.
=Engkrurai=, a musical instrument made of bamboo tubes fixed in a gourd.
=Ensera=, a fairy tale.
=Ensuling=, a flageolet.
G
=Galanggang=, a game, not unlike prisoner’s base, played by the Dyaks.
=Gawai Antu=, the “Spirit Feast”; feast in honour of the dead.
=Gawai Batu=, the “Stone Feast,” held before farming operations begin.
=Gawai Benih=, the “Seed Feast,” held just before sowing the seed.
=Gawai Burong=, the “Bird Feast,” held in honour of human heads taken in war.
=Gawai Gajah=, the “Elephant Feast”; the greatest of all feasts connected with head-hunting.
=Gawai Ijok=, the “_Ijok_ Feast.” The _ijok_ is the gamuti palm from which a native drink (_tuak_) is obtained. This feast is connected with head-hunting.
=Gawai Mandi Rumah=, a feast given when a new house is built; the house-warming.
=Gawai Nyimpan Padi=, the “Feast of Storing the Paddy,” held after the reaping and winnowing are over, when the paddy is ready to be stored.
=Gawai Pala=, “the Head Feast.” Another name for _Gawai Burong_.
=Gawai Tenyalang=, “the Horn-bill Feast.” Another name for _Gawai Burong_.
=Ginselan=, a sacrifice in which some animal is slain and the blood used.
=Gusi=, the name of an old jar of great value, and looked upon as sacred.
I
=Igat=, a term of endearment applied to boys.
=Ilang=, a curiously carved sword.
=Ipoh=, a tree (_Antiaris toxicaria_) the sap of which is poisonous, and used to poison the darts of the blow-pipe.
J
=Jadi rumah?= “Is the house free from taboo?”—_i.e._, May we walk up into the house? The usual question asked before entering a Dyak house.
=Jala=, a casting-net.
K
=Kabayah=, a long jacket worn by Malay women.
=Kadjang=, a covering made of the young leaves of the _nipa_ palm, etc., sewn together with split cane. This is used as awnings for boats, or for the roof of temporary huts.
=Kain=, a woman’s petticoat.
=Kana=, a fairy tale set to verse and sung.
=Kapu=, lime.
=Kasih ka imbok enda kasih ka manok=, “To show kindness to the wild pigeon, but not to the domestic fowl” (Dyak proverb).
=Kati=, 1¼ pounds.
=Katupong=, an omen bird.
=Kini ka nuan?= “Where are you going?” A form of greeting.
=Klambi=, a sleeveless jacket; a coat.
=Kutok=, an omen bird.
L
=Labong=, a headkerchief.
=Langan=, waves in tidal rivers which are caused at flood-tide by the strong current rushing over the shallows.
=Lantai=, bamboo, or palms, etc., split into laths, and tied together for the flooring of a house, or to sit upon in boats.
=Lari ka ribut nemu ujan, lari ka sungkup nemu pendam=, “Running from the hurricane, he encounters the rain; running from a tombstone, he finds himself in a graveyard” (Dyak proverb).
=Lesong=, a wooden mortar used for pounding rice, etc.
=Limban=, the Dyak Styx; the river in Hades.
=Lobon-lobon=, the words shouted by those watching a diving ordeal. The meaning is uncertain.
=Lumpang=, a piece of bamboo in which rice has been cooked; used at the feast for the dead as a boat to fetch the spirits from Hades.
=Lunas=, the keel of a boat.
=Lupong=, a Dyak medicine-chest.
M
=Maias=, the orang-utan (_Simia satyrus_).
=Makai di ruai=, literally “eating in the public hall of a Dyak house.” Name of a social feast.
=Makai rami=, literally “eating joyfully in large numbers.” Name of a social feast.
=Mali=, forbidden; tabooed.
=Manang=, a witch-doctor.
=Manang bali=, a witch-doctor who has changed his sex and become a woman.
=Manang bangun=, a witch-doctor who has been “waved upon”—_i.e._, who has been through the “waving upon” ceremony.
=Manang enjun=, a witch-doctor who has been “trodden upon”—_i.e._, who has been through the “trodden upon” ceremony.
=Manang mansau=, literally “a ripe _manang_”—_i.e._, one who is a fully qualified _manang_.
=Manang matak=, literally “an unripe _manang_”—_i.e._, one who has not been fully initiated into the mysteries of the _manang’s_ profession.
=Manjong=, to shout all together.
=Mencha=, the Sword Dance.
=Mlah pinang=, literally “to split the betel-nut.” To perform the marriage ceremony by splitting the betel-nut.
N
=Naga=, a dragon. A valuable old jar with the figure of a dragon on it.
=Nampok=, to spend the night at a solitary place in order to obtain some charms from the spirits.
=Nemuai ka Sabayan=, “making a journey to Hades.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Nendak=, an omen bird.
=Ngelembayan=, “taking a long sight.” Name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Nibong=, a thorny palm (_Oncosperma tigillaria_).
=Nipa=, a palm which grows by the sea and at the mouths of rivers (_Nipa fructicans_).
O
=Orang-utan=, the _maias_ (_Simia satyrus_).
P
=Padi=, rice in the husk.
=Pagar api=, literally “a fence of fire.” A spear fixed blade upwards, with leaves tied to it, round which the _manangs_ walk when taking part in their ceremonies.
=Pana=, an offering of food given to the dead by the friends of those who are in mourning.
=Pandong=, a kind of altar erected in different parts of the veranda of the Dyak house during the Bird Feast.
=Papau=, an omen bird.
=Para piring=, the altar of sacrifice.
=Pelampong=, a wooden float, generally cut in the form of a duck, to which baited hooks are fastened.
=Pelandai=, a love-song.
=Pelian=, a _manang_ ceremony to restore the health of a sick person.
=Pendam=, a burial-ground.
=Pendok=, a tree with fibrous bark.
=Pengap=, an incantation.
=Pengaroh=, a charm.
=Petara=, gods.
=Peti=, a spring trap set to kill wild pig.
=Pinang=, the betel-nut; the areca-nut.
=Piring=, an offering of food.
=Plandok=, the mouse-deer.
=Puni=, a peculiar Dyak superstition that, if food is offered to a man and he goes away without at least touching it, some misfortune is sure to befall him. It is said that he is sure to be attacked by a crocodile, or bitten by a snake, or suffer from the attack of some other animal.
R
=Rawai=, a Dyak woman’s corset, made of tiny brass rings strung close together on hoops of cane.
=Rarong=, a coffin.
=Remaung di rumah rawong di tanah=, “A tiger in the house, but a frog in the field” (Dyak proverb).
=Rotan=, cane; rattan.
=Ruai=, the public veranda of a Dyak house.
=Rusa=, a deer. A valuable old jar with the figure of a deer on it.
S
=Sabayan=, Hades.
=Sadau=, the loft of a Dyak house.
=Sakit Rajah=, “the disease caused by the King (of evil spirits)”—smallpox.
=Sarong=, a long petticoat worn by Malay men and women.
=Saut=, the name of a _manang_ ceremony.
=Serumai=, a one-stringed fiddle.
=Sirat=, a waist-cloth; the usual male attire of the Dyak.
=Sireh=, a vine of the pepper tribe; its leaves are chewed with lime, gambier, and betel-nut.
=Sumping=, a Dyak observance held after the death of relatives.
=Sumpit=, a blow-pipe.
T
=Tabak=, a brass dish.
=Tajau=, a valuable jar.
=Tanju=, the uncovered veranda of a Dyak house, where paddy and other things are put out to dry in the sun.
=Tawak=, a large brass gong.
=Tendai=, the bar on which cotton is placed in weaving.
=Tenyalang=, the rhinoceros hornbill (_Buceros rhinoceros_).
=Tikai buret=, a seat-mat.
=Timang=, to sing to in a monotonous manner.
=Tuai rumah=, the headman or chief of a Dyak house.
=Tuak=, native spirit.
=Tuan=, gentleman; master; sir. The term of respect usually applied to Englishmen.
=Tuba=, the name applied to a poison from the root of a shrub (_Derris alleptica_), or of a creeper. The poisonous bark of a tree. There are several kinds of _tuba_ used for _tuba_-fishing.
=Tugong bula=, “the liar’s mound.” A pile of branches and twigs heaped up in memory of a man who has told a great lie.
U
=Ulit=, mourning.
INDEX
A
Abroad, the Dyak, 333
_Achar_, 54
Adultery, 69, 132
Affection, domestic, 70
Ah Choy, 241, 248
Ah Fook Cheyne, 249
_Ajat_, 222
Amusements, sports and, 220
_Apai Saloi_, 254
Armadillo, 153
Articles buried with the dead, 138
_Attap_, 42, 150
Augury, 161
Axe, Dyak, 50, 51
B
Bad times, 326
Bailey, D. J. S., 184
_Baiya_, 138
Basket-making, 53
Bat, 153
_Batu bintang_, 188 _ilau_, 165, 166, 190 _krang jiranau_, 189 _krat ikan sembilan_, 188 _kudi_, 205 _lintar_, 189 _nitar_, 189
Beards, 39
_Bebaju besi_, 171
_Bebandong api_, 171
_Bebayak_, 170
_Beburong raia_, 171
_Bedungai_, 225
_Begiling lantai_, 171
_Bejampong_, 153
_Bejit-Manai_, 300
_Bekliti_, 178
_Belang-Pinggang_, 300
_Bepancha_, 170
_Bepantap Buyu_, 172
_Beragai_, 152
_Beremaung_, 171
_Berenchah_, 169
_Bermong_, 226
_Besudi_, 178
_Betanam pentik_, 169
Betel-nut, 151
_Betepas_, 169
_Betiang garong_, 170
_Betiti tendai_, 171
_Bilian_ trees, 151, 211
_Blikan_, 231
_Bliong_, 50, 51
Blood, a drop of, 159
Blood-letting, 183
Blow-pipe, 34, 78, 279
Boat-building, 49
Boat songs, 225 swamped, 247 travelling, 145 war, 79
Bore, tidal, 146
Bornean jungles, 21
Boys, Dyak, 103, 105, 107
Brooke, Sir James, 21, 24 Rajah, 26
Brooke, Sir Charles, 29 Rajah, 29
_Bui Nasi_, 300
_Bukitans_, 34
_Bunga Jawa_, 300
_Bunsu Burong_, 286 _Katupong_, 286
Burial-ground, 136
Burial rites, 133
_Buyu_, 172
C
Camphor-tree, 151, 238
Camphor-working, 238
Cane ladders, 237
Captain Keppel, 27
Captives, 94
Caves, edible birds’-nest, 236
Ceremonies, 243 _manang_, 166, 169
Chambers, Bishop, 116, 118
_Chanang_, 230
Change of name, 103
Character, the Dyak, 61, 327
Childbirth and children, 96
Child-naming, 102
Children, kindness to, 62
Christian Dyak chiefs, 84 Mission, introduction of, 28
Circumcision, 322
Cock-fighting, 210, 223
Cocoanut palm, 151
Coffin, 136
Collecting edible birds’-nests, 236
Contents of a Dyak medicine-chest, 184
Cooking, 87, 241
Courtship, 120
Couvade, 96
Crocodile, 149 — catching, 56
Customs, some curious, 316
D
Dance, sword, 221, 229 war, 222, 229
Dancing women, 84
_Danjai_ and the Were-Tiger’s sister, 265
Darts, poisoned, 79
_Dasu_, Dr., 185
Debt, slaves for, 95
Debts, 95
Decapitation, 83
Deer, 153
Depilation, 39
“Dictionary of the Sea Dyak Language,” 184
_Dido_, H.M.S., 27
Dispute in Krian, 319
Diving ordeal, 316
Divorce, 69
Domestic affection, 70
Dreams, 161 omens and, 152
Dress, men’s, 36, 78 war, 78 women’s, 37
Drinking, 212
Drums, 229
_Durian_, 151, 319
“Dyak,” the word, 33 charms and native remedies, 182 chiefs, Christian, 84 marriage of, 73 feasts, 209 folklore, 252 headman or chief, rule of, 88 medicine-chest, contents of, 184 religion, 194 trial, 89 village house, 42, 184 wealth, 90
Dyaks, the, 33
E
Ebony-tree, 151
Education, 105
_Embuas_, 153
_Emplawa Jawa_, 293
_Engkratong_, 231
_Engkrumong_, 230
_Engkrurai_, 230
_Ensera_, 252
_Ensuling_, 231
Expedition, head-hunting, 75
Experiences, some personal, 240
F
Fables, 252
Failures, 326
Families, smallness of, 104
Farming, rice, 325
Father-in-law, 125
Feast, the bird, 210 in honour of the dead, 142, 216
Feasts connected with farming, 215 head-taking, 210 Dyak, 209 social, 219
Feeding the dead, 135
Fines, 89
Fireplace, 44
Fishing, 54 _tuba_, 55
Fish-traps, 297
Folklore, Dyak, 252
Food, 87
Football, 221
Forests, tropical, 21
Form of greeting, 323
Frugality, 63
Fruit-trees, 94
Future existence, belief in, 133, 143, of the Sea Dyak in Sarawak, the, 324
G
_Galanggang_, 224
Games, 220
_Gawai Antu_, 142 _Batu_, 215 _Benih_, 215 _Gajah_, 215 _Ijok_, 214 _Mandi Rumah_, 219 _Nyimpan Padi_, 216 _Pala_, 210 _Tenyalang_, 210
_Ginselan_, 203
_Girgasi_, 199
Girls, Dyak, 103
God of the earth: _Pulang Gana_, and how he came to be worshipped as the, 300
Gods, 195
Gomes, B.D., the Rev. W. H., 29
Gongs, 229
Grades of _manangs_, 178
Graves, 136, 138
Greeting, form of, 323
_Gusi_, 91
Gutta-trees, 151
Gutta-working, 235
H
Habitations of spirits, 210
Head-hunting, 23, 72 expedition, 75 legend of, 73
Head-taking, feasts connected with, 210
Headman, 265 power of, 90 rule of, 88
Heroes, mythical, 253
Honesty, 63
Honey-bear, 149
Hornbill, 211
Hose, D.D., Bishop, 98
Hospitality, 67
House-building, 47
House, Dyak village, 42
Howell, Rev. W., 184
Human heads, 213 necessary for wedding feast, 266
Hunting, 53, 296
I
Incantations, 195, 213, 226, 229
Infanticide, 100
Initiation of _manangs_, 178
Introduction of Christian missions, 28
Invisible spirits, 227
Invocations, 195, 213, 226, 228
J
_Jala_, 54
Jars, old, 45, 90
Jumping, 224
Jungle, Bornean, 149 lost in the, 249
Jungle-path, 148
K
_Kabayah_, 35
Kabong, 249
_Kadjangs_, 50, 146, 148, 150
_Kana_, 226, 252, 253
_Katupong_, 152
_Kayans_, 34
Keppel, Captain, afterwards Admiral, 27
_Kinyehs_, 34
_Klieng_, 253
Krian, dispute in, 319 Mission, 119
_Kumang_, 253
_Kunsil Negri_, 30
_Kutok_, 153
L
_Langan_, 146
Legend of head-hunting, 73
Legends, 252 three Dyak, 264
Leprosy, 322
Life beyond the grave, 133, 143 of the Dyak, 324
_Limban_, 229
Lizard, 153
_Lobon-lobon_, 318
Love-song, 225
_Lumpang_, 216
_Lupong_, 165, 187
M
Madness, 322
_Maias_, 74, 149
_Mali_, 197
_Manang_, or witch-doctor, the, 163 ceremonies, 166, 169
_Manangs_, 99, 182, 227 not buried, 143
Marriage, 120 Dyak view of, 128
Mat-making, 52
Meals, Dyak, 87
Medicine-chest, Dyak, 165 the contents of a Dyak, 184
_Mencha_, 221
Mesney, the Rev. W. R., 116
Metamorphosis, 287
_Milanaus_, 33
Missionary, the itinerant, 240
Missions among the Dyaks, 328 introduction of Christian, 28
Mission schools, 329
_Mlah pinang_, 124
Morals, Dyak, 68, 121
Mother-in-law, 125, 131
Mouse-deer and other animals who went out fishing, the story of the, 255
Mouse-deer, the deer, and the pig, the story of the, 259
Mourning, 139, 285 putting off, 217 song of, 228
_Muruts_, 34
Music, song and, 225
Musical instruments, 222, 229
Mythical heroes, 253
Mythology, Dyak, 264
N
_Naga_, 91
Name, change of, 103
Naming the child, 102
Native remedies and Dyak charms, 182
_Nemuai Ka Sabayan_, 170
_Nendak_, 153
Nets, 54
_Ngelai_, 253
_Ngelembayan_, 170
_Nibong_ palm, 150
_Nipa_ palm, 150
North-east monsoon, 247
O
Oars, 145
Offertory, 245
Omen birds, 47, 152, 234, 238, 298 animals, 153
Omens and dreams, 152 of birds, the story of Siu, who first taught the Dyaks to plant paddy and to observe the, 278
_Orang-Utan_, 74, 149
Ordeal, diving, 316 trial by, 316
P
Paddles, 50, 79, 145
Paddy, 278 planting, 297, 325
_Pagar Api_, 166, 168, 174
Palms, 150
_Pana_, 139, 141
_Pandong_, 213
_Papau_, 153
Past, a picture from the, 22
_Pelandai_, 225
_Pelian_, 164, 168, 169
_Pendam_, 136
_Pengap_, 195, 213, 228, 326
Perham, the Rev. J., 119
Personal experiences, some, 240
_Petara_, 194, 197
_Pinang_, 282 _Mlah_, 124
Pirates, 23
_Piring_, 202
Planting paddy, 297, 325
Prayer-houses, 244
Preparations for diving ordeals, 317 for feasts, 210
Proverbs, Dyak, 261
_Pulang Gana_, 137 how he came to be worshipped as the god of the earth, 300
_Punans_, 34
_Puni_, 320
Python, 149, 153
Q
Questions, 243
R
Rajah Brooke, 26, 29 _Muda Hassim_, 25 _Shua_, 305
Rapids, 147
Rat, 153
Religion, Dyak, 194
_Rotan_, 151, 235
_Royalist_, the yacht, 25
Rule of the Dyak headman or chief, 88
_Rusa_, 91
S
_Sabak_, 142
_Sabayan_, 228
Sacrifices, 202
Sago palm, 151
_Salampandai_, 174, 197, 228
Sampun, 247
Sand-banks, 146
Saribas Mission, 119
_Sarong_, 35
_Saut_, 173
Schoolboy reminiscences, 119, 175, 249
School in the jungle, my, 105 programme, 108
Sea Dyak in Sarawak, the future of the, 324
_Seragunting_, 278, 290
_Seregendah_, 306
_Seru_, 34
_Serunai_, 231
Services, 244, 245
_Shua_, Rajah, 305
_Singalang Burong_, 160, 196, 227, 284
Singapore, 233
Singing, 225
_Sireh_, 282
_Siu_, the story of, 278
Slavery, 94
Slaves, adoption of, 95 for debt, 95
Smallness of families, 104
Smallpox, 191
Social life, 86 position of the women, 86
Some curious customs, 316 personal experiences, 240
Song and music, 225 of mourning, 140, 228 of the head feast, 213 the wailers’, 140, 228
Songs, 229
Soul, the, 177
Spears, fishing, 55
Spinning-tops, 223
Spirit of the Winds, 228
Spirits, 183, 189, 227, 242
Sports and amusements, 220
Stones of wrath, 205
Stories, Sea Dyak, 252
Story of _Buda_, 114
Story of the mouse-deer and other animals who went out fishing, the, 255
Story of the mouse-deer, the deer, and the pig, the, 259
Story of _Siu_, who first taught the Dyaks to plant paddy and to observe the omens of birds, the, 278
_Sumping_, 141
_Sumpit_, or blow-pipe, 34, 78, 279
Superstitions of the Dyaks, 242
Swallows, 236
Swimming, 223
T
_Tajau_, 91
Tattooing, 37
_Tawak_, 229
Teaching the Dyaks, 242
Teeth, 38
Temudok, 247
_Tenyalang_, 211
Tidal bore, 146
Time, 322
Tops, spinning, 103, 295
Toys, 103
Traps, 53
Travel, love of, 233
Travelling, 145, 247 in Sarawak, 145
Trial, a Dyak, 89 by ordeal, 316
Tropical forests, 21
Truthfulness, 66
_Tuba_, 56 fishing, 56, 210
_Tugong bula_, 67
_Tujoh_, catechist, 113
U
_Ukits_, 34
_Ulit_, 139
Unselfishness, 70
V
Village house, Dyak, 42
Visit to a Dyak house, 240, 246
W
Wailers, professional, 140, 218, 228
Wailers’ song, 140
War boat, 79, 266
War costume, 78 council, 76, 81 songs, 225 spear, 76
Warfare, Dyak, 72, 297
Wealth, Dyak, 90
Weaving, 52
Wedding, Dyak, 122
Were-Tiger, 267
Were-Tiger’s sister, Danjai and the, 265
Winds, Spirit of the, 228, 229
Women, social position of, 86
Women’s work, 46, 51, 62
Work, men’s, 46, 325 women’s, 46, 62, 324
Wrestling, 224, 295
THE END
BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD
A Catalogue of Books for Young People, Published by Seeley & Co. Ltd., 38 Great Russell St., London
_Some of the Contents_
The Library of Romance 13 The Library of Adventure 13 The Heroes of the World Library 8 The Olive Library 10 The Pink Library 11 The Prince’s Library 12 The Scarlet Library 14 The Wonder Library 16 Sunday Echoes 2 Stories by Professor Church 3 Stories by Mrs. Marshall 9 Stories by Miss Beatrice Marshall 9 Books by Miss Giberne 7
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CATALOGUE OF BOOKS
_Arranged alphabetically under the names of Authors and Series_
AGUILAR, GRACE.
The Days of Bruce. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. (SCARLET LIBRARY.)
ANDERSEN, HANS.
Fairy Tales. With Illustrations. 2s. and 3s. 6d. (SCARLET AND PRINCE’S LIBRARIES.)
ALCOTT, L. M.
Little Women and Good Wives. With Illustrations. 2s. (SCARLET LIBRARY.) Also Little Women, Extra crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.; and Good Wives, Extra Crown, 1s. 6d.
Amadis of Gaul. _See_ KNIGHT-ERRANT.
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. With Illustrations. 2s. (SCARLET LIBRARY.)
BALLANTYNE, R. M.
The Dog Crusoe and His Master. With Illustrations by H. M. BROCK, R.I. Extra crown 8vo, 2s.
BERTHET, E.
The Wild Man of the Woods. With Illustrations. 1s. 6d.
BLAKE, M. M.
The Siege of Norwich Castle. With Illustrations, 5s.
BRAMSTON, M.
The Wild Lass of Estmere, and other Stories. Cr. 8vo, 3s. 6d.
BROCK, Mrs. CAREY.
The Bird’s Nest, and other Songs for Children, 1s.
Dame Wynton’s Home. A Story Illustrative of the Lord’s Prayer. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
Home Memories. Crown 8vo, 5s.
My Father’s Hand, and other Stories. Crown 8vo, 2s.
Sunday Echoes in Weekday Hours. A Series of Illustrative Tales, Seven Vols. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. each.
I. The Collects. II. The Church Catechism. III. Journeyings of the Israelites. IV. Scripture Characters. V. The Epistles and Gospels. VI. The Parables. VII. The Miracles.
Working and Waiting. Crown 8vo, 5s.
BROWN, LINNET.
The Kidnapping of Ettie, and other Tales. With Sixteen Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
BUNYAN, JOHN.
The Pilgrim’s Progress. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. (SCARLET LIBRARY.)
CARTER, Miss J. R. M.
Diana Polwarth, Royalist. A Story of the Life of a Girl in Commonwealth Days. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
CHARLESWORTH, Miss.
England’s Yeomen. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
Oliver of the Mill. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
Ministering Children.
1. With Sixteen Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges, 3s. 6d. 2. Olive Library. Cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. 3. Scarlet Library. Cloth, 2s. 4. With Four Illustrations. Cloth, 1s. 6d.
Ministering Children: A Sequel. With Illustrations. Cloth, 1s. 6d. Also with Eight Illustrations. Cloth 2s. and 2s. 6d.
The Old Looking-Glass. Crown 8vo, 1s.
The Broken Looking-Glass. Crown 8vo, 1s.
The Old Looking-Glass and the Broken Looking-Glass; or, Mrs. Dorothy Cope’s Recollections of Service. In one volume. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
Sunday Afternoons in the Nursery. With Illustrations. 2s. 6d.
CHATTERTON, E. KEBLE.
The Romance of the Ship. With Thirty-three Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
CHURCH, Rev. ALFRED J., formerly Professor of Latin in University College, London.
“Professor Church’s skill, his overflowing knowledge, and above all, that cultured simplicity of style, in respect of which he has absolutely no rival among contemporary writers for boys, enable him to overcome all obstacles.”—SPECTATOR.
Extra crown 8vo, 5/-each.
The Children’s Æneid. Told for Little Children. With Twelve Illustrations in Colour. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
The Children’s Iliad. Told for Little Children. With Twelve Illustrations in Colour. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
The Children’s Odyssey. Told for Little Children. With Twelve Illustrations in Colour. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
The Crown of Pine. A Story of Corinth and the Isthmian Games. With Illustration in Colour by GEORGE MORROW. Ex. cr. 8vo, 5s.
The Count of the Saxon Shore. A Tale of the Departure of the Romans from Britain. With Sixteen Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Faery Queen and her Knights. Stories from Spencer. With Eight Illustrations in Colour. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Stories of Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France. With Eight Illustrations in Colour. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Crusaders. A Story of the War for the Holy Sepulchre. With Eight Illustrations in Colour. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Stories from the Greek Tragedians. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Greek Story. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Stories from the Greek Comedians. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Hammer. A Story of Maccabean Times. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Story of the Persian War, from Herodotus. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Heroes of Chivalry and Romance. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Stories of the East, from Herodotus. Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Helmet and Spear. Stories from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans. With Eight Illustrations by G. MORROW. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Story of the Iliad. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s. Also Thin Paper Edition, cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s. nett. CHEAP EDITION, 6d. nett; also cloth, 1s.
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Stories from Homer. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Stories from Livy. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Story of the Odyssey. With Coloured Illustrations. 5s. Also Thin Paper Edition, cloth, 2s. nett; leather, 3s. nett. Cheap Edition, 6d. nett. Also cloth, 1s.
Stories from Virgil. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s. Cheap edition, sewed, 6d. nett.
With the King at Oxford. A Story of the Great Rebellion. With Coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Crown 8vo, 3/6 each.
The Fall of Athens. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
The Burning of Rome. A Story of Nero’s Days. With Sixteen Illustrations. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
The Last Days of Jerusalem, from Josephus. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. Also a Cheap Edition, Sewed, 6d.
Stories from English History. With many Illustrations. Cheaper Edition. Revised. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
Extra crown 8vo, 2/6 each.
To the Lions. A Tale of the Early Christians. With Coloured Frontispiece and other Illustrations, 2s. 6d.
Heroes of Eastern Romance. With Coloured Frontispiece and Eight other Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
The Chantry Priest. With Illustrations.
Three Greek Children. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
Crown 8vo, 1/6 each.
A Greek Gulliver. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
Heroes and Kings. Stories from the Greek. Illustrated. Small 4to, 1s. 6d.
The Stories of the Iliad and the Æneid. With Illustrations. 16mo, sewed, 1s.; cloth, 1s. 6d. Also without Illustrations, cloth, 1s.
To the Lions. A Tale of the Early Christians. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
CODY, Rev. H. A.
On Trail and Rapid. By Dog-sled and Canoe. A Story of Bishop Bompas’s Life among the Red Indians and Esquimo. Told for Boys and Girls. With Twenty-six Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
COOLIDGE, SUSAN.
What Katy did at Home and at School. With Four Illustrations in Colour by H. M. BROCK, R.I. Crown 8vo, 2s.; also in leather, 3s. 6d. nett.
COUPIN, H., D.Sc., and J. LEA, M.A.
The Romance of Animal Arts and Crafts. With Twenty-five Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
COWPER, F.
Caedwalla: or, The Saxons in the Isle of Wight. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. (PRINCE’S LIBRARY.)
The Island of the English. A Story of Napoleon’s Days. With Illustrations by GEORGE MORROW. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
The Captain of the Wight. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
CRAIK, Mrs.
John Halifax. Illustrated. Extra cr. 8vo, 2s. (SCARLET LIBY.)
DAVIDSON, N. J., B.A.
A Knight-Errant and his Doughty Deeds. The Story of Amadis of Gaul. With Eight Coloured Illustrations by H. M. BROCK, R.I. Square Extra Crown 8vo, 5s.
DAWSON, Rev. Canon E. C.
Heroines of Missionary Adventure. With Twenty-four Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Lion-Hearted. Bishop Hannington’s Life Retold for Boys and Girls. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. (OLIVE LIBRARY), and 1s. 6d. (PINK LIBRARY).
In the Days of the Dragons. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
DEFOE, DANIEL.
Robinson Crusoe. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. and 3s. 6d. (SCARLET AND OLIVE LIBRARIES.)
ELLIOTT, Miss.
Copsley Annals Preserved in Proverbs. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
Mrs. Blackett. Her Story. Fcap. 8vo, 1s.
ELLIOT, Prof. G. F. SCOTT, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.G.S., F.L.S.
The Romance of Plant Life. Describing the curious and interesting in the Plant World. With 34 Illustrations. Ex. crown 8vo, 5s.
“Popularly written by a man of great scientific accomplishments.”—THE OUTLOOK.
The Romance of Savage Life. With Forty-five Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
The Romance of Early British Life: From the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Danes. With 30 Illustrations. Ex. crown 8vo, 5s.
EVERETT-GREEN, EVELYN.
A Pair of Originals. With Coloured Frontispiece and Eight other Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
FIELD, Rev. CLAUD, M.A.
Heroes of Missionary Enterprise. With many Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
GARDINER, LINDA.
Sylvia in Flowerland. With 16 Illustrations Cr. 8vo, 3s. 6d.
GAYE, SELINA.
Coming; or, The Golden Year. A Tale. Third Edition. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Great World’s Farm. Some Account of Nature’s Crops and How they are Grown. With a Preface by Professor BOULGER, and Sixteen Illustrations. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s.
GIBERNE, AGNES.
The Romance of the Mighty Deep. With Illustrations. 5s.
“Most fascinating.”—DAILY NEWS.
Among the Stars; or, Wonderful Things in the Sky. With Coloured Illustrations. Eighth Thousand. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Duties and Duties. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Curate’s Home. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.
The Ocean of Air. Meteorology for Beginners. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Starry Skies. First Lessons on Astronomy. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
Sun, Moon, and Stars. Astronomy for Beginners. With a Preface by Professor PRITCHARD. With Coloured Illustrations. Twenty-sixth Thousand. Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The World’s Foundations. Geology for Beginners. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
GIBSON, CHARLES R., F.R.S.E.
The Romance of Modern Electricity. Describing in non-technical language what is known about electricity and many of its interesting applications. With Forty-one Illustrations. Ex. crown 8vo, 5s.
“Admirable … clear, concise.”—THE GRAPHIC.
The Romance of Modern Photography. The Discovery and its Application. With many Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
The Romance of Modern Manufacture. A Popular Account of the Marvels of Machinery. With Twenty-four Illustrations and Sixteen Diagrams. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
How Telegraphs and Telephones Work. Explained in non-technical language. With many Diagrams. Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d.
GILLIAT, EDWARD, M.A. Formerly Master at Harrow School.
Forest Outlaws. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Heroes of Modern Crusades. With Twenty-four Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
In Lincoln Green. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The King’s Reeve. Illustrated by SYDNEY HALL. 3s. 6d.
Wolf’s Head. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
The Romance of Modern Sieges. With Sixteen Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 3s.
Heroes of the Elizabethan Age. With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
GOLDEN RECITER, THE. _See_ RECITER, THE GOLDEN.
GREW, EDWIN S., M.A. (Oxon.).
The Romance of Modern Geology. A popular account in non-technical language. With Twenty-four Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. and 3s. 6d. (SCARLET AND PRINCE’S LIBRARIES.)
HEROES OF THE WORLD LIBRARY
Each Volume lavishly Illustrated. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Heroes of Missionary Enterprise. By Rev. CLAUD FIELD, M.A.
Heroes of Pioneering. By Rev. EDGAR SANDERSON, M.A., Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge.
Heroines of Missionary Adventure. By Rev. CANON DAWSON, M.A.
Heroes of Modern Crusades. By Rev. EDWARD GILLIAT.
Heroes of Modern India. By Rev. E. GILLIAT.
Heroes of the Elizabethan Age. By Rev. E. GILLIAT.
HUGHES, THOMAS.
Tom Brown’s Schooldays. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. and 2s. 6d. (SCARLET AND OLIVE LIBRARIES.)
HYRST, H. W. G.
Adventures in the Great Deserts. With Sixteen Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Adventures in the Great Forests. With Sixteen Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Adventures among Wild Beasts. With Twenty-four Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Adventures in the Arctic Regions. With Sixteen Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Adventures among Red Indians. With Sixteen Full-page Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
KINGSLEY, CHARLES.
Westward Ho! With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 2s. & 2s. 6d. (SCARLET AND OLIVE LIBRARIES.)
KNIGHT-ERRANT AND HIS DOUGHTY DEEDS.
The story of Amadis of Gaul. Edited by N. J. DAVIDSON, B.A. With Eight Coloured Illustrations by H. M. BROCK, R.I. Square extra crown 8vo, 5s.
LAMB, CHARLES and MARY.
Tales from Shakespeare. With Illustrations. Ex. crown 8vo, 2s. (SCARLET LIBRARY.)
LAMBERT, Rev. JOHN, M.A., D.D.
The Romance of Missionary Heroism. True Stories of the Intrepid Bravery and Stirring Adventures of Missionaries in all Parts of the World. With Thirty-nine Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
Missionary Heroes in Asia. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, 1s. 6d.
Missionary Heroes in Africa. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, 1s. 6d.
Missionary Heroes in Oceania. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, 1s. 6d.
LEA, JOHN, M.A. (Oxon.)
The Romance of Animal Arts and Crafts. _See_ COUPIN.
The Romance of Bird Life. With Twenty-six Illustrations. 5s.
LEYLAND, J.
For the Honour of the Flag. A Story of our Sea Fights with the Dutch. With Illustrations by LANCELOT SPEED. Crown 8vo, 5s.
MACPHERSON, HECTOR, Jun.
The Romance of Modern Astronomy. With Twenty-four Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
MARSHALL, BEATRICE.
His Most Dear Ladye. A Story of the Days of the Countess of Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney’s Sister. Illustrated. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
The Siege of York. A Story of the Days of Thomas, Lord Fairfax. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
An Old London Nosegay. Gathered from the Day-Book of Mistress Lovejoy Young. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Old Blackfriars. In the Days of Van Dyck. A Story. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Queen’s Knight-Errant. A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh. With Eight Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s.
MARRYAT, Captain.
Masterman Ready. With Illustrations by H. M. BROCK, R.I. 2s. (SCARLET LIBRARY.)
MARSHALL, EMMA.
“Mrs. Marshall’s imaginative pictures of the England of other days are in reality prose poems.”—LITERATURE.
Crown 8vo, 5/-
In Colston’s Days. A Story of Old Bristol. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
In Four Reigns. The Recollections of Althea Allingham, 1785-1842. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
In the Choir of Westminster Abbey. A Story of Henry Purcell’s Days. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne, Knight. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell. A Story of 1682-94. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
A Haunt of Ancient Peace. Memories of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar’s House at Little Gidding. With Illustrations by T. HAMILTON CRAWFORD. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Kensington Palace. In the Days of Mary II. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Master of the Musicians. A Story of Handel’s Day. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
The Parson’s Daughter, and How she was Painted by Mr. Romney. With Eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Penshurst Castle. In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s. CHEAP EDITION. Demy 8vo, 6d.
Winchester Meads. In the Days of Bishop Ken. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s. CHEAP EDITION. Demy 8vo, 6d.
Under Salisbury Spire. In the Days of George Herbert. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s. CHEAP EDITION. 6d.
Under the Dome of St. Paul’s. In the Days of Sir Christopher Wren. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Under the Mendips. A Tale of the Times of Hannah More. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Constantia Carew. Crown 8vo, 5s.
Crown 8vo, 3/6
Castle Meadow. A Story of Norwich a Hundred Years Ago.
Edward’s Wife.
An Escape from the Tower.
Joanna’s Inheritance.
Life’s Aftermath.
Now-a-days.
On the Banks of the Ouse.
The White King’s Daughter.
Winifrede’s Journal.
Extra Crown 8vo, 2/6
The Old Gateway.
Millicent Legh.
Violet Douglas.
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