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AUTHOR'S NOTE
I WISH to express my thanks to Sir Clement Kinloch-
Cooke, M.P., for the preface which he has kindly-
contributed to this volume, and for allowing me to
reproduce my translations of Sea Dyak legends which
appeared in the Empire Revieio ; to Bishop Hose, under
whom I worked for seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks
of Sarawak, for allowing me to use his excellent article
on " The Contents of a Dyak Medicine-chest "; to the
Rev. John Perham, formerly Archdeacon of Singapore,
with whom I worked in Sarawak for some years, for his
introduction, and also for allowing me to make use of
the scholarly papers which he wrote for the Journal of
the Straits Branch of the Asiatic Society, on Sea Dyak
Religion and Folklore ; and to the Rev. David Steele-
Morris for going through the manuscript and making
many useful suggestions.
I am indebted to His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak
to Dr. Charles Hose
for permission to insert his portrait ;
for his great kindness in allowing me to use his excellent
photographs, and also to the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for lending me one of
their blocks ; to Messrs. Bassano, of Bond Street, and
Messrs. G. R. Lambert and Co., of Singapore, whose
photographs I am kindly permitted to reproduce ; to
Mr. Hewitt, formerly curator of the Sarawak Museum ;
and Mr. Ha Buey Hon, of Kuching, who have also been
so good as to lend me photographs.
To all these, as well as to many unmentioned friends
who have helped me to write this book, I offer my sincere
thanks.
Upper Norwood,
December, 1910.
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EDWIN H. GOMES.