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## C hristmas Day was different last year. In preceding years, roast chicken had graced our Christmas dining-table, but this year a pair of live chickens ran across it. Their squawking affirmed that their heads and scrawny trunks were still connected with one another. Heads and trunks have not always enjoyed so secure a union in Kapit, 150 km inland on the Rajang River in Sarawak. This was the head-hunters' territory of old North Borneo, where the Iban, the Ukit and other Dyak tribal groups once stalked and decapitated one another. In the after-life, credit was given for captured heads. A good few Japanese soldiers lost their heads in these jungles during the occupation of Borneo in World War II. We arrived in up-river Kapit by boat on December 24. The previous day we had left peninsular Malaysia and flown across the South China Sea to Kuchlng, the capital of Sarawak. Sabah and Sarawak are Malaysia's two remote eastern states. Kuching, as does Singapore, lies a climatically-insignificant two degrees north of the equator, and December is monsoon season. On the day that we arrived it rained relentlessly -which afforded our two daughters, 16 and 12 years of age, respectively, a chance

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Author

Anthony J. McMichael

Publisher

AMPCo

Published

1988

Language

JV

Field

Social Sciences