Surely we need not wonder at the limited number of her progeny, but rather be surprised at the successful efforts of nature to prevent the extermination of the race.
One of the surest and most beneficial effects of advancing civilization, will be the amelioration of the condition of these women.

The precept and example of higher races will make the Dyak ashamed of his comparatively idle life, while his weaker partner labours like a beast of burthen.

As his wants become increased and his tastes refined, the women will have more household duties to attend to, and will then cease to labour in the field--a change which has already to a great extent taken place in the allied Malay, Javanese, and Bugis tribes.

Population will then certainly increase more rapidly, improved systems of agriculture and some division of labour will become necessary in order to provide the means of existence, and a more complicated social state will take the place of the simple conditions of society which now occur among them.

But, with the sharper struggle for existence that will then arise, will the happiness of the people as a whole be increased or diminished?
Will not evil passions be aroused by the spirit of competition, and crimes and vices, now unknown or dormant, be called into active existence?
These are problems that time alone can solve; but it is to be hoped that education and a high-class European example may obviate much of the evil that too often arises in analogous cases, and that we may at length be able to point to one instance of an uncivilized people who have not become demoralized, and finally exterminated, by contact with European civilization.
A few words in conclusion, about the government of Sarawak.