Wanderings Among

South Sea Savages

And in Borneo and the Philippines



by H. Wilfrid Walker

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society



To

My brother Charles
This record of my wanderings
in which he took so deep an interest,
is affectionately dedicated.



Preface

In a book of this kind it is often the custom to begin by making
apologies. In my case I feel it to be a sheer necessity. In the first
place what is here printed is for the greater part copied word for
word from private letters that I wrote in very simple language in
Dayak or Negrito huts, or in the lonely depths of tropical forests, in