Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 16th January 1882, Edition 1 of 1, Page 71

THE HEAD-HUNTERS OF BORNEO . OPINIONS OF THE PRESS—continued . wbicli we wish we could dwell as haa It deserves «* n > —are women the Tring I GLOBE , Nor . 9 , 1881 . Bock pyak that extraordinary a is ( the the only * ^ Buro ^ race ^ ^ , l an the ^ w ™ Chang i ^ ^ E g ^ ^ ^ . L ^] ^ ^ Kmea ™ ild « People ^ « f for Indieg ' the Thia general majority *«** , > » of * them British volume a * opens rra < nco ^ to < English m ^ « 5 . About readers knowledge the what Dntch is ; much mother of the lig Wood and hter a ski . "" ... n - * f . H th ^ « « " n ™? 1 the g £ < = S ? ^ d 5 Jr h ni ^ £ so w ^ ^ e rl owfal ^ Bomeo Zn frTtheir Seaturefl of ' three with An " tbe ou about » ht m 08 to Borneo t feel interesting fitful fa Particular portions , therefor next of , the for to a vast book nothing island Jn which at are alL described some Tney ot extremely charac youngr teristic PynM ^ ur ^ attitude , * J ? $ ^ *? * % ^ during ^ ^ .. 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A good 35 j AILTT deal _¦ , of - the A NEWS . interior , . , , Deo of * Borneo 1 . 27 9 1881 is still a ( erra dire eaters cannibal ctly are from Dyaks accompanied themselves and of a priestess with concerning some also belonging this information unnatural to the derived liabit man . - incognita and rivers the —the gazetteer * tmt very tra . names ve Among llers of nre which these gradu travellers a are lly p unknown ushing a high their to place the wa must atlas y up nejt It elcrted feems to them but the a palms the rery knees tew of the , of and the hands thirdly many are the points the brains tit ot -bits great in "We Borneo interest have , Borneo J Borneo * ftss * ffned , and gives to Sumatra Mr an . account Carl Bock of He , two who seems , joum in h to ej havo s •« of Head exploration accomplished -Hunters to of merchants filled In tiihe this ot notabl the Mr what e facts . work Bock a vast with . ' s A field book which page they dugh would ite have twenty t to hardly for show -eight operations suffice some chapters to of in tell this our are a fFP hlfl tn tainly 6 Dyaks ^ work ? ' it , wifcn mmt Y but ° have BT fe have w eafc of lon peraeverance us been g had known in realised many of and the that resixjcts devot piratical cannibalism ' on sufficiently ; h and abits pre cer of - - too l ¦ little oil "AIiL - considered -. MAIiL _ , __ quarter GAZETTE _ . —— of the . «•« globe — . , . 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