With the Dyaks of Borneo —— A Tale of the Head Hunters

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ISBN: 9781330758205 出版年：2016 页码：413 Captain F S Brereton Forgotten Books

T was a balmy autumn day four years after Queen Victoria I ascended the throne, and the neighbourhood of South ampton Water was looking perhaps more brilliant and more beautiful than it had during the long summer which had just passed. Already the leaves were covering the ground, and away across the water pine-trees stood up like sentinels amidst others which had already lost their covering. A dim blue haze in the distance denoted the presence of Southampton, then as now a thriving seaport town.