The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-30

bread frrg aud nEsfneroBs others, frofn one
end Of fbe yesFatoathe OTTER. With OBI the
exertion suecessAry 10 picking it Iheg
live on rice and FRAT. and Teaitg u =
courtryGin whset d i imp0ssioie % Se
rsaor. The Chinese. cSEs the ether hand. are
thse thrifty ones and under the Eugilsn
are the ones tfazE are developing the
country, and they aave been the meAHs %
starting large commercial interests "a rec,
tobacco. coffee. tea. gambler -wnieh =
vasaable dye stufs-tapioca, rattan, rubber
and tin. This last comes from the most
extensive deposits Ia the world. on the
Masay peninsuls, which, Of course, are
worked By, the ChinEsss who are the real
workers ~ the county, IS the Mays
won't and the white men cant WORK
s'Singapore IS the meeting point Tor al
nations ard The trade az that port IS afn-
nense ships from al parts OF the worla
coming IN t..ere. and in fs.tZ sc had M IL
port trade that vas four times that OF Fan
Francisco. The import trade Is gTe2s. De-
cause Il - the distributing point FOR the
Malay peninsula. the adjacent islands and
as far as Siam. The prevailing language
Ia Singapore is MALAY. a language which
- easy TO learn and ia use hy syefy body.
SOboay thinks of learning Chinese except
missionaries. Singapore, with Us Dopu4a-
ton Of 2000 VI al nation allties, has
many modern cOnseniences- IL Is iighted
By gas, has telephone service and some
time ago had q stean tramway, but II had
20 give In because il could not compete
with the native jlnucksbas two-wheeled
vehicle pulled ~ Cinnamon.
Mr.. West has an interesting fund OF in
cidentsof places and people Of that coun-
try. having Travelled throughout the Fari-
Gus outlying districts, in some o. them
being the iir-t = fite man 20 dare the pas
sage Ills trip through Borneo vas full OF
adventures. He said:
Among the wild people Of Borneo are
the Dvaks or head-hunters. Thew are
relic OF cannIbalism. and undoubtedly we're
such not many years ago. No Protestant
mission work has been done among them
as vet bat the Roman Catholics have one
or two stations. | made a trip among
them 275 mics an tie interior OF borneo,
and found them friendly and really nice
people They are divided into families or
tribes and, no matter how large the tribe
may be, they ali live in one house.
and in front Of each one OF
these house were CHASTITY heads
suspended from tuft OF hair lett
on the crown In every instance these
heads were mummified or dried up by the
extreme heat. though before suspending
them they clean the brain matter out OF
the skull. These heads are trophies of
both manhood and war. Every young
man on reaching his majority is compelled
TO leave the village and 60 IN search OF
head or lose his own ia the attempt. and
his sueressfni return with human head
fresh from his victims shoulders es-
tablishes his claim TO the estate
of manhood. THIS title of manhood is
forever placed IN front of bis house to-
gether with as many more as tie may be
able 10 capture In war or otherwise. Ar Is
sa q that when these young bloodthlrsty
warriors FIRST start out head hunting their
easerness to succeed makes them forget
everybody, and q friend is as likely to lose
his head To the young man as an enemy
human head they must have, and head
they get These head hunters have a
spoken but not written language and
their tribes are one of the very few fields
remaining in which tire Bible has not been
planted, and until their language
is reduced to written form moth
ing can be done in this direcEion.
These Dyaks know nothing of money. but
are sharp at bargain in exchange for salt
and tobacco. for which they will sell any
thing. Men and women smoke and chew.
They mix their smoking tobacco with
betel nuts and species of pepper leaf TO
make the smoke more pungent
"Morality1 Well, as much as you could
expect. Polygamy is general among the
Chinese, Maiays and Dyaks. and morality
as we understand it is practically uR-
known. Men and women dress alike.
Perhaps. correctly speaking. men and
women are undressed alike, .
short skirt from the waist down
forming the sum total OF their raiment.
The Dyaks are either too lazy or too fgno-
rant 70 manufacture cloth tor this pur-
pose, and use the bark of soft wood
| tree, which when beaten and dried forms
a fair imitation of felt. This they use in
making their scant toilets.
Yes; travelling through that country is
tedious and dangerous. the latter from
snakes and tigers. Pythons and boa con-
strictors abound, and no traveller thinks
| of moving out of his quarters after
| o'clock. as then these wild animals begin
their nocturnal hunt for food"