It is true enough that some gold reaches the coast in the hands of those Dyaks when, during short periods of truce in the desultory warfare, they visit the coast settlements of Malays.

And so the wildest exaggerations are built up and added to on the slight basis of that fact.
Almayer in his quality of white man--as Lingard before him--had somewhat better relations with the up-river tribes.

Yet even his excursions were not without danger, and his returns were eagerly looked for by the impatient Lakamba.

But every time the Rajah was disappointed.

Vain were the conferences by the rice-pot of his factotum Babalatchi with the white man's wife.