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WITHOUT making any pretence to being scientific, this plain and unvarnished, but eminently readable, narrative of a lady's experiences among the natives of some of the more remote districts of the interior of Borneo contains a large amount of interesting information with regard to the customs and mode of life of both Dyaks and the less well known Muruts. Mrs. Cator, it appears, accompanied her husband on his official trips into the interior of that wonderful island, and during these underwent experiences and faced difficulties such as few ladies would care to repeat, and which afford incontestable testimony as to her pluck and resolution. Among these experiences it will suffice to refer to the account of Jier sleeping with her husband in a large shed in company with a long row of savage head-hunters who had never before beheld a white woman, or, for that matter, a white man.
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L., R. The Head-Hunters of Borneo 1 . Nature 73, 203–204 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073203a0
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