[137] — This phrase as commonly used implies the exchange of greetings.
[138] — See Chap. XII.
[139] — Of the Romans it is said: "When a fox, a wolf, a serpent, a horse, a dog, or any other kind of quadruped, ran across a person's path or appeared in an unusual place, it formed an augury."
[140] — JOURN. OF STRAITS ASIATIC SOCIETY, Nos. 8, 10, and 14.
[141] — See Chap. XXII.
[142] — See Chap. XVII.
[143] — In the paper from which the greater part of this chapter is extracted this word was spelt NYARONG. It is now clear to us that it should be spelt as above, with the initial NG, a common initial sound in the Sea Dayak language. The most literal translation of the word is, the thing that is secret, or simply, the secret, or my secret.
[144] — Almost every Iban possesses and constantly carries with him a bundle of such objects; they are regarded as charms and are called PENGAROH; but few probably claim to enjoy the protection of a secret helper.
[145] — INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY, and elsewhere.
[146] — Now that the sacrifice of human victims is forbidden, Kenyahs and Klemantans sometimes carve a human figure upon the first of the main piles of a new house to be put into the ground.