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Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines

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The author recounts extended travels through Fiji, Samoa, the Philippines, Papua and Borneo, detailing residence with chiefs, river and jungle expeditions, and varied encounters with indigenous communities. Vivid sketches describe household life and dances, ex-cannibal settlements, Negrito and Filipino villages, war-trails and night attacks in Papua, discovery of lake-dwelling peoples, Dayak longhouse life, head-hunting practices, and visits to birds’-nest caves, often accompanied by photographs. Drawn from letters and field notes, the narrative emphasizes personal impressions, specimen collecting, and anecdotal observation rather than systematic ethnography.

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A Chief’s Daughter and a Daughter of the People

A “Meke-Meke,” or Fijian Girls’ Dance

Interior of a large Fijian Hut

A Fijian Mountaineer’s House

At the Door of a Fijian House

A Fijian Girl

Spearing Fish in Fiji

A Fijian Fisher Girl

A Posed Picture of an old-time Cannibal Feast in Fiji

Making Fire by Wood Friction

An Old ex-Cannibal

A Fijian War-Dance

Adi Cakobau (pronounced “Andi Thakombau”), the highest Princess in Fiji, at her house at Navuso

A Filipino Dwelling

A Village Street in the Philippines

A River Scene in the Philippines

A Negrito Family

Negrito Girls (showing Shaved Head at back)

A Negrito Shooting

Tree Climbing by Negritos

A Negrito Dance

Arigita and his Wife

Three Cape Nelson Kaili-Kailis in War Attire

Kaili-Kaili House on the edge of a Precipice

“A Great Joke”

A Ghastly Relic

Cannibal Trophies

A Woman and her Baby

A Papuan Girl

The Author with Kaili-Kaili Followers

Wives of Native Armed Police

A Papuan Damsel

Busimaiwa, the great Mambare Chief, with his Wife and Son (in the Police)

A Haunt of the Bird of Paradise

The Author starting on an Expedition

A New Guinea River Scene

Papuan Tree-Houses

A Village of the Agai Ambu

H. W. Walker, L. Dyke-Acland, and C. A. W. Monckton

View of Kuching from the Rajah’s Garden

Dayaks and Canoes

Dayak in War-Coat

Dayak Women and Children on the Platform outside a long House

Dayaks Catching Fish

A Dayak Woman with Mourning Ornaments round waist

On a Tobacco Estate

On a Bornean River

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Revision History

  1. 05-OCT-2000 Added TEI Header.
  2. 23-JUL-2005 Last Revision.
  3. 04-NOV-2009 Regenerated HTML, added colophon.

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39 mosquitos mosquitoes
143 atttention attention
163 Cryers Criers
198 jewelry jewellery
213 childen children