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THE DYAK CHIEF
{1}AND OTHER VERSES

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The Dyak Chief
and Other Verses

BY
ERWIN CLARKSON GARRETT
Author of
“My Bunkie and Other Ballads”





NEW YORK
BARSE & HOPKINS
PUBLISHERS
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Copyright, 1914
By BARSE & HOPKINS

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To My Mother

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PREFACE

Neither desiring to plagiarize Cæsar nor to compare my book to Gaul, Iwish to mention briefly that this volume as a whole is divided intothree parts, of which one is occupied by the single poem, “The DyakChief,” the verses that give title to the book; another, the second, isoccupied by American army ballads, and yet another, the third, isoccupied by various verses on miscellaneous subjects.

However, if recollections of my personal campaigns against Cæsar—armedonly with a Latin vocabulary and grammar—serve me rightly, the oldRoman was not merely a worthy foe, but one who might well be held up asa worthy example; who dealt with his chronicles as he dealt with hisenemies on the field, in a simple, direct, forcible manner, bare ofcircumlocution, tautology or ambiguity—that he who runs may read—andreading, know his Gaul and Gallic chieftains, his Cæsar and his Cæsar’slegionaries, even as Cæsar knew them.

The initial poem, “The Dyak Chief,” forming Part One, is a romance ofCentral Borneo, that I visited in July, 1908, during a little triparound the World.{8}

Coming over from Java, which I had just finished touring, I arrived atBandjermasin, in southeastern Borneo, near the coast, and from whence Itook a small steamer up the Barito River to Poeroek Tjahoe, pronounced“Poorook Jow,” deep in the interior of the island.

Poeroek Tjahoe was the last white (Dutch) settlement, and from there Iwent with three Malay coolies five days tramp on foot through thejungle, northwest, penetrating the very heart of Borneo, sleeping thefirst three nights in the houses of the Dyaks, some nomadic tribes ofwhom still roam the jungle as head-hunters, and the last two nights uponimprovised platforms out in the open, till I reached Batoe Paoe, a townor kampong in the geographical center of the island.

I also visited a nearby village, Olong Liko, afterwards returning by theMoeroeng and Barito Rivers to Poeroek Tjahoe, and from thence back toBandjermasin on the lit

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