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Title: Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Hunting East Indies -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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om the facts we already have that it exceeds twohundi*ed and fifty thousand. On the noi-th coast of Borneo the name Kyan is appHed only tothe people who inhabit the head-waters of the Eejang and theBaram rivers (about fifty villages in all) ; while the tribe as awhole is named after the IVIilanaus, an insignificant sub-tribe inhab-iting a few miles of sea-coast, a half-civilized offshoot of thetrue Kyans, who do not practice head-hunting, but according toRajah Brooke are exceedingly treacherous. The Milanausproper are in no sense typical representatives of the sub-tribesusually classed under that name (and even by Rajah Brooke inhis Ten Years in Sarawak, vol. i., p. Tfl) ; therefore, I haveadopted the term Kyan as the name of the whole tribe, for thereason that the sub-tribe commonly known by that name is thelargest, the most warlike and entexprising, and in every way mostfit to be regaided as the type of the whole people. Generally speaking, therefore, the Kyan tribe is distinguished
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A KY^VN WARRIOR. (From a sketch by II. II. Everett.) THE ABORIGINES OF BOENEO. 447 by being the farthest removed from ci\ilization and by the jiracticeof svmdry barbarous and sometimes cruel customs ; by tattooing ;by the use of the sampitan, or blow-pipe, and poisoned arrows ; by■wearing sleeveless jackets made of padded cloth or skins of bear,leopard, monkey, or orang-utan ; by the buiial of their dead, es-pecially of their chiefs, in coffins or vaults raised high on jDOsts;and lastly (and most strangely of all), by then- ability to smelt ironore, and to use both forge and bellows in the manufacture of theirweapons, which are of good quality and strangely ornamented. Inaddition to the above distinguishing characteristics, mention maybe made of their war shields, of hard wood, ornamented on thefront with tufts of hair, sometimes dyed in vaiious colors, takenfrom the heads of slain enemies. For making forays in great force and suddenly attacking de-fenceless villages of real or fanc

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