Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines

by H. Wilfrid Walker

In New Guinea:—Sir Francis Winter, Mr. C. A. W. Monckton, R.M., The Hon. A. Musgrave, Capt. Barton, Mr. Guy O. Manning, and Dr. Vaughan.

In the Philippines:—Governor Taft, afterwards President of the United States, and Mr. G. d’E. Browne.

In British North Borneo:—Messrs. H. Walker, Richardson, Paul Brietag, F. Durége, J. H. Molyneux, and Dr. Davies.

In Sarawak:—H.H. The Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, Sir Percy Cunninghame, Dr. Hose, Archdeacon Sharpe, Mr. R. Shelford, and the officials of The Borneo Company, Ltd.

To all of these and many others in other countries I take this opportunity of publicly tendering my cordial thanks for their unfailing kindness and hospitality to a wanderer in strange lands.

H. Wilfrid Walker.

Table of Contents

• [Preface]
• [List of Illustrations]
• [Part I: Life in the Home of a Fijian Prince.]
  • [Chapter I: Life in the Home of a Fijian Prince.]
  • [Chapter II: My Further Adventures with Ratu Lala.]
• [Part II: Among Ex-Cannibals in Fiji.]
  • [Chapter III: Among Ex-Cannibals in Fiji.]
  • [Chapter IV: Mock War-Scene at the Chief’s House.]
• [Part III: My Life Among Filipinos and Negritos and a Journey in Search of Bearded Women.]
  • [Chapter V: At Home Among Filipinos and Negritos.]
  • [Chapter VI: A Chapter of Accidents.]
• [Part IV: In the Jungles of Cannibal Papua.]
  • [Chapter VII: On the War-Trail in Cannibal Papua.]
  • [Chapter VIII: We Are Attacked By Night.]
  • [Chapter IX: On the War-Trail Once More.]
  • [Chapter X: The Return From Dobodura.]
• [Part V: Our Discovery of Flat-Footed Lake Dwellers.]
  • [Chapter XI: Our Discovery of Flat-Footed Lake Dwellers.]
• [Part VI: Wanderings and Wonders in Borneo.]
  • [Chapter XII: On the War-Path in Borneo.]
  • [Chapter XIII: Home-Life Among Head-Hunting Dayaks.]
  • [Chapter XIV: Visit to the Birds’-nest Caves of Gomanton.]
• [Plates]

List of Illustrations

1. [Frontispiece—Belles of Papua.]
2. [A Chief’s Daughter and a Daughter of the People]
3. [A “Meke-Meke,” or Fijian Girls’ Dance]
4. [Interior of a large Fijian Hut]
5. [A Fijian Mountaineer’s House]
6. [At the Door of a Fijian House]
7. [A Fijian Girl]
8. [Spearing Fish in Fiji]
9. [A Fijian Fisher Girl]
10. [A Posed Picture of an old-time Cannibal Feast in Fiji]
11. [Making Fire by Wood Friction]
12. [An Old ex-Cannibal]
13. [A Fijian War-Dance]
14. [Adi Cakobau (pronounced “Andi Thakombau”), the highest Princess in Fiji, at her house at Navuso]
15. [A Filipino Dwelling]
16. [A Village Street in the Philippines]
17. [A River Scene in the Philippines]
18. [A Negrito Family]
19. [Negrito Girls (showing Shaved Head at back)]
20. [A Negrito Shooting]
21. [Tree Climbing by Negritos]
22. [A Negrito Dance]
23. [Arigita and his Wife]
24. [Three Cape Nelson Kaili-Kailis in War Attire]
25. [Kaili-Kaili House on the edge of a Precipice]
26. [“A Great Joke”]
27. [A Ghastly Relic]
28. [Cannibal Trophies]
29. [A Woman and her Baby]
30. [A Papuan Girl]
31. [The Author with Kaili-Kaili Followers]
32. [Wives of Native Armed Police]
33. [A Papuan Damsel]
34. [Busimaiwa, the great Mambare Chief, with his Wife and Son (in the Police)]
35. [A Haunt of the Bird of Paradise]
36. [The Author starting on an Expedition]
37. [A New Guinea River Scene]
38. [Papuan Tree-Houses]
39. [A Village of the Agai Ambu]
40. [H. W. Walker, L. Dyke-Acland, and C. A. W. Monckton]
41. [View of Kuching from the Rajah’s Garden]
42. [Dayaks and Canoes]
43. [Dayak in War-Coat]
44. [Dayak Women and Children on the Platform outside a long House]
45. [Dayaks Catching Fish]
46. [A Dayak Woman with Mourning Ornaments round waist]
47. [On a Tobacco Estate]
48. [On a Bornean River]