ABSTRACT
The Hill Dyaks, or as they call themselves, "Orang Gunong," or Men of the Hills, differ in many peculiarities from the Dyaks of the Sea tribes. The ox, the buffalo, the deer, the goat, fowls and some kinds of vegetables, are forbidden food to some or other of Dyak tribes. The natives of the continent of South America are little, with no vocabulary of the languages of the central tribes of that continent. Amongst the Dyaks are found jars, held by them in high veneration, the manufacturers of which are forgotten; the smaller ones, amongst the Land and Sea Dyaks, but particularly with the latter, are common. The Hill Dyaks are a more amiable people than the Sea tribes, previously treated of: their morality is of a higher standard, their gratitude is undoubted, and their hospitality to strangers well ascertained. One positive monument of the people has, however, been found in Sarawak, though in a much mutilated state.
