Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines, by H. Wilfrid Walker This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines Author: H. Wilfrid Walker Release Date: November 4, 2009 [EBook #2564] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOUTH SEA SAVAGES *** Produced by Jeroen Hellingman Belles of Papua Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines By H. Wilfrid Walker Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society With forty-eight plates from photographs by the author and others London Witherby & Co. 1909 To My brother Charles This record of my wanderings in which he took so deep an interest, [v]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 the far-off islands of the Southern Seas.