Plate 81 (face pg. 142) from C.Hose / W.McDougall (1912): The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.
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Title: The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hose, Charles, 1863-1929 McDougall, William, 1871-1938 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropometry
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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etimesuse a living dog) is bound to a strong bar of hard-wood, sharpened at both ends and some fifteen inchesin length. A number of small rattans are tied tothe bar about its middle, their other ends being 142 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap, vm made fast to a log. This arrangement is allowedto float down river; if it does not float freely, thecrocodile will not take the bait. When a crocodilerises to the bait and swallows it, the bar gets fixedcross-wise in his gullet as he pulls on the rattans.The hunters, having kept the log in sight, thenattach the ends of the rattans to the boat, tow thereptile to the bank, and haul him up on dry land.They secure his tail and feet with nooses, whichthey lash to a pole laid along his back, and lash hisjaws together. Throughout these operations thecrocodile is addressed deferentially as Laki (grand-father). He is then left exposed to the sun, whenhe soon dies; in this way the people avoid therisks attaching to slaying the crocodile with theirown hands.
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CHAPTER IX LIFE IN THE JUNGLE All the peoples of Borneo support themselves inpart by hunting and trapping the wild creatures ofthe jungle, but for the Punans alone is the chasethe principal source of food-supply; the variousnatural products of the jungle are, with the excep-tion of cultivated sago in some few regions, theironly marketable commodities. Hunting The wild pig (Sus barbatus^) is the principalobject of the chase, but deer of several species arealso hunted and trapped. The largest of these(Cervus equinus) is rather bigger than the Englishfallow deer ; the smallest is plandok, or mouse deer(Tragulus napu and T. Javanicus), standing onlyabout eight inches at the shoulder; intermediatein size is the muntjac (Cervulus muntjac). Thereare also small herds of wild cattle (Bos sondaicus),a small rhinoceros (R, sumatranus), large lizards( Varanus)y various apes and monkeys, and a largeporcupine (Hestrix Crassispinus), and several smallmammals, such as otters (Lutra), bear-cats(Arctid

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