Dusun women
The Dusuns, who are found in the jungles of the interior, represent a very low state of civilization
Dyak head-hunters of North Borneo
Every Bornean girl demands that her suitor shall establish his social position by acquiring a few heads
The company has taken no steps toward establishing a system of public schools, as we have done in the Philippines, for it holds to the outworn theory that, so far as the natives are concerned, a little learning is a dangerous thing. Perhaps the company is right. Were the natives to acquire a little learning it might prove dangerous—for the company. There are a few schools in North Borneo, but they are maintained by the Protestant and Roman Catholic missions and are attended mainly by Chinese. Whether they have proved as potent an influence in the propagation of the Christian faith as their founders anticipated is open to doubt. When I was in Sandakan I made some purchases in the bazaars from a Chinese lad who addressed me quite fluently in my own tongue.
"How does it happen that you speak such good English?" I asked him.