Brass rings were the great ornament in this village--as they are, indeed, among the Dyaks generally.

Many of the women had their arms completely covered with them, as well as their legs from the ankle to the knee.
Their petticoats were fastened to a coil of rattan, stained red, round their bodies.

They also wore coils of brass wire, girdles of small silver coins, and sometimes broad belts of brass ring-armour.
It was break of dawn next morning when our hunters started, bearing their wounded comrade and the dead orangs with them.
Arrived at the village they found the people in great excitement preparing for defence, as news had been brought to the effect that the pirates had landed at the mouth of the river, joined the disaffected band which awaited them, and that an attack might be expected without delay, for they were under command of the celebrated Malay pirate Baderoon.
Nigel observed that the countenance of his friend Van der Kemp underwent a peculiar change on hearing this man's name mentioned.

There was a combination of anxiety, which was unnatural to him, and of resolution, which was one of his chief characteristics.
"Is Baderoon the enemy whom you saw on the islet on our first night out ?" asked Nigel, during a ramble with the hermit that evening.
"Yes, and I fear to meet him," replied his friend in a low voice.
Nigel was surprised.

The impression made on his mind since their intercourse was that Van der Kemp was incapable of the sensation of fear.
"Is he so very bitter against you ?" asked Nigel.
"Very," was the curt reply.
"Have you reason to think he would take your life if he could ?" "I am sure he would.