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xviii CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXI
DYAK FOLKLORE
PAOBS
Sea Dyak stories— Ensera—Kana—The mouse - deer and the
tortoise— Klieng — Kumang — Apai Saloi—The cunning of
the mouse-deer—The mouse-deer and other animals who went
out fishing —The mouse-deer, the deer and the pig — Sea Dyak
proverbs
- - 252-263
CHAPTER XXII
THREE DYAK LEGENDS
Dyak fairy tales and legends — I. Da^jai and the Were-Tioer's
Sister— II. The Story of Sitt, who first taught the Dyaks
to observe the omens of birds— III. Pttlang Gana, and how
he came to be worshipped as the god of the earth - 264-315
CHAPTER XXIII
SOME CURIOUS CUSTOMS
Trial by ordeal— Diving contests—A diving contest at Krian—
A Dyak superstition —Names—Fruit found by the pathway —
Circumcision— Fishing and hunting superstition — Madness—
Leprosy —Time—Form of greeting - - - 316-323
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 324-331
Glossary - - - - 332-337
Index - - - - 338—343