Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches)
Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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or some time formed an article of export from Sumatra DRESS, WEAPONS, AND OTHER PROPERTY OF THE MALAYS 431 and Sumba. Buffaloes are kept for the sake of the rice farms, even where thereare no oxen. In addition to pigs, fowls, and dogs, with an occasional stumpy-tailed cat, which form the main stock of domestic animals, goats are foundin the highlands. Some Dyak and Philippine tribes breed dogs for food, and theIgorrotes are said to do the same by horses. With the Tagals, the Balinese, andthe Sassaks, duck-rearing is an important business ; but there must be some mis-understanding about the tale told of the Malays of Malacca, that their womensuckle monkeys, fatten them, and eat them. Besides, the inhabitants of theanimal-frequented forest regions are very fond of domesticable animals. A result of this abundance of animals is that every large island possesses its hunting tribes. Bezoary stones, rhinoceroshorns, tigers galls, are by Malay, and stillmore by Chinese superstition stamped as
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(1) Wooden tureen and spoon from Luzon—one-third real size. (From Dr. Meyers Collection) ;(2) Sumatran saddle. (Dresden Museum.) valuable elements in magic apparatus. For the larger hunting parties, severalfamilies combine. The great nets of abaca (Manilla hemp), ten yards longby one and a half wide, are stretched between the trees, so that the gamewhen driven may take one direction, where the hunters are ambushed withjavelins, arrows, and dogs. They have no lack of pluck ; Beccari knew atiger-hunter who had by himself brought down fourteen head. But in thecultivated regions of Java and Luzon there are agricultural tribes who knowalmost nothing of the chase. The Malays are masters in the art of settingtraps. Six several kinds of Dyak traps have been described by Skertchly asbridges or platforms, arches, gangways. Many traps have two falls, which dropsimultaneously, so that the tiger can neither get out nor reach the bait. Othersare of the nature of walled pits, widening to the botto

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