Dyaks
or DAYAKS, the Malay name for the race which constitutes the bulk of the aboriginal population of Borneo, divided into innumerable tribes differing pretty widely in language, customs, and degrees of savageness. Physically they closely resemble the Malays. to whom they are doubtless akin, but are somewhat taller; they are intelligent, hospitable, and unsuspicious, and greatly excel the Malays in truthfulness and honesty. Even the most uncivilized tribes have many ingenious arts and industries, weave cloth, make excellent steel weapons, and erect most serviceable suspension bridges with bamboo poles and withes. Their chief weapon is the lowpipe. The barbarous custom of systematic head-hunting is dying out. The Sea-Dyaks were long famous as untamable pirates.