Identifier: jungletrailsjun00whit (find matches)
Title: Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ke the leopard.They seek to make their appearance as terrifyingas possible to embolden them on their journeysagainst the wind, to which they attribute every illthat befalls them. Lightning, thunder, rainbows—all such heavenly phenomena are regarded as themessengers of the bad ghost of the wind, fromwhom they tremblingly implore deliverance. Theyare excessively superstitious, and on occasions offright the women offer lighted coals and bundlesof their childrens hair, while the men shoot poi-soned darts from their blow-guns in the generalendeavor to propitiate the evil gods. As a rulethey are honest in word and deed, and a moralpeople in their own way. Here, deep in the jungle of Malay, did I, at lastin the Ear East, find a people for whom the legend1 Made in Germany had no significance; all theirarticles of ornament (save the necklace, which iscomposed of seeds and animals teeth) and utilityare constructed entirely of the ubiquitous bamboo,as is the blow-gun, called sumpitan. This gun
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SAKAIS CUTTING DOWN A TREE. MOTO Bv C*PT T he man cutting is about 30 feet from the ground and the tree is 200 feet high and 6 feet in diameter. I hey build the scaffolding and fell the tree in one day. using only the small crude axe such as that seen in the topmost mans hand. HUMAN TREE-DWELLERS V21 is a pipe about an inch and one-half in diameterand six and one-half feet in length; the bore,drilled most accurately, is quarter inch, and thedarts nine inches in length, about the circumfer-ence of a heavy darning needle, are sharpened atone end, and poisoned. With these they secure allthe meat they eat in the jungle: birds, monkeys,snakes, lizards. They also have knives made ofbamboo, with which they cut roots, herbs, andfruits. I was amazed at the marksmanship of theSakais with these blow-guns; frequently I saw themhit with precision and repeated accuracy smalltargets full sixty feet distant; and they appearedable to drive a dart into the crawling flesh oflizard as far as it could be

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