ABSTRACT
The river of Lundu is situated to the westward of the Santu-bong, or western entrance to the river of Sarawak: this river, which is not large, has its rise in the Sarawak territory and country occupied by the land Dyaks of Singhie. In piratical expeditions, several of which occurred annually, the greater part of the Dyaks of Sarawak and Sadong were attacked, their men and women slain and decapitated under the most cruel circumstances, and the virgins and children were carried by their parents' destroyers into captivity. The duties of the women are various and numerous; though the whole care of the house devolves upon them, they are not exempted from participation in the labours of the field. The heaviest labours of the farm, the management of their trade with the Malays, building and repairing their houses and boats, making their implements of husbandry and war, employ all the time remaining from their expeditions of hunting and piracy.
