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or bad omens from the cries, or the sudden appearance, of certain birds, and beasts, are the bane of the Dyak’s life: these are often the voices of ancestral spirits. A tiger’s tooth is a very precious charm; but the touch of a deer paralyses a maiden with fear: to fall into water is to lose one’s spirit: only a wizard can restore it, and the proce is costly. Dreams are firmly credited, and a wife who dreams that it would endanger her life to bear a child may claim divorce. If famine, drought, or deluges of rain occur some one must be selected as a sacrifice: the victim is generally a criminal. There are two kinds of Manang, or wizard: (1) regular ones called by a spirit in a | dream — including Zaki “males,” Infu ‘“ females,” and Bali “eunuchs” who wear female costume: these latter are persons of importance yet treated as women; (2) the “self-created” Manang. The Bali may be nominally married to a man, and may severely fine this busband if he is unfaithful. They often are rich (see Mr Ling Roth, Jowrnal Anthropological Socy., Nov. 1891, p. 119). The Dya or Dyaks bury their dead, as soon as a coffin is ready, to a depth of two or three feet. The corpse is dre ed in the dead man’s best clothes, and his weapons and ornaments are placed beside him.