FOLK-LORE IN BORNEO A SKETCH BY WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS 3D, M.D., F.R.G.S. MEMBRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE GÉOGRAPHIE À PARIS MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY [_PRIVATELY PRINTED_] WALLINGFORD DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 1899 [Illustration: A KAYAN CHIEF.] A SKETCH OF THE FOLK-LORE OF BORNEO. In this short monograph I do not pretend to give anything more than a Sketch of the Folk-lore to be found among the Borneans. The island is large, and the people, scattered and isolated by constant inter-tribal warfare, differ one tribe from another, in language, customs and appearance almost more than do Germans, French, or English; to say that any tradition …
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