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“. . . such is the complacent Dyak life-style.”these are like the self-made troubles of the simple-minded, theworries of the sophisticated.Once I asked a hoary-headed grandpa his age. Afterpondering for half a day he broke slowly into a broad smile, “Ithink I am eighteen.” You can see from such an encounter thattheir philosophy of life is Epicurean. Were you to ask them thetimes in which they live, “of Chin or Han Dynasty,” they wouldsurely find it a mystery to render an answer.Talking about the education of the Dyaks, this may be crisplysummed up in a word: they are illiterates. Without any educationtheir knowledge is tightly circumscribed. It was only twenty yearsago that the Dutch began to establish schools in their villages.Since they are illiterate and devoid of any scientific knowledge,they know not how to make aircraft, guns or atom bombs and thewhole gamut of weapons of destruction. Nevertheless, they know96
the art of eking out an existence. They carry on their hip a longparang (knife) and in their hands they carry a sumpitan (blowpipe). With these two weapons for eking out an existence they cango anywhere, uphill or down dale. They will not die of hungerwith these tools and by their use they can build themselves ahome. The Punans, for instance, have no worry for clothing orshelter. They neither plough nor weave. Everyday they go out intothe hills and forests to hunt with these two weapons. They do notkeep hunting dogs for they have an equally keen scent. Shouldyou go into a jungle never entered by man and be suddenlyconfronted by a big fellow of a naked man, you might befrightened to death. How he has come to be there is by his scent ofyour presence. However, he would not harm you.The Dyak’s house is a modified version of nestling in trees.They live high from the ground. A small tree trunk serves as aladder that leans steeply on the door-front. Such a tree-ladder isused also for communication from the water edge up the bank. Ifyou were a high-heeled lady, you could never get up to their door.Nevertheless, whether old or young, they are as agile as monkeys,going up and down that ladder. They can climb, like monkeys, theslender betel palm or the thick-set coconut, parang on hip, andbring down their fruit one by one. They seem to have no difficultyin subduing snakes and wild beasts, for they are not only fullyarmed but also endued with agility and cunning. In their villagethere is hung a brass gong, or else there is a big drum set upbefore the door. In time of emergency the gong or the drum issounded to alert one and all to self-defence. Thus they are enabledto live in a tranquil world by themselves.Having lived with the Dyaks, it makes me to consider theutter stupidity of these highly educated, cultured ones. Thecultured man is a do-nothing book-worm. He dresses in westernstylepomp, and the female – nylon socks and high-heeled shoes,Paris perfume and high-class face cream. He takes the Chinese97
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Translator’s Preface to this Abri
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Chapter 1A Half-Century of Fleeting
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with the nursing superintendent and
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corrupt petty officer. But he had n
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He loved China like his own country
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such an extraordinary institution p
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For the company of schoolmates who
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them published in the newspapers’
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One day while writhing in the throe
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Although he utterly detested those
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inside the living quarters he becam
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last, he was determined to a celiba
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