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plest kind of frame stretched on the floor, and is a very slow 

 and tedious process. To form the cliecked pattern in common 

 use, each patch of colored threads has to be pulled up sepa- 

 rately by hand and the shuttle passed between them, so that 

 about an inch a day is the usual progress- in stufi^ a yard and 

 a half wide. The men cultivate a little sirih (the pungent 

 pepper leaf used for chewing with betel-nut) and a few vege- 

 tables, and once a year rudely plow a small patch of ground 

 with their buffaloes and plant rice, which then requires little 

 attention till harvest-time. Now and then they have to see 

 to the repairs of their houses, and make mats, baskets, or 

 otlier domestic utensils, but a large part of their time is 

 passed in idleness. 



Not a single person in the village could speak more than 

 a few words of Malay, and hardly any of the people appear- 

 ed to have seen a Euroj^eau before. One most disagreeable 

 result of this was that I excited terror alike in man and beast. 

 Wherever I went, dogs barked, children screamed, women 

 ran away, and men stared as though I were some strange and 

 terrible cannibal monster. Even the j)ack-horses on the roads 

 and paths would start aside when I appeared and rush into the 

 jungle ; and as to those horrid, ugly brutes, the buflaloes, 

 they could never be approached by me — not for fear of my 

 own, but of others' safety. They would first stick out their 

 necks and stare at me, and then on a nearer view break loose 

 from their halters or tethers, and rush away helter-skelter as 

 if a demon were after them, without any regard for what 

 might be in their way. Whenever I met buffaloes carrying 

 packs along a pathway, or being driven home to the village, 

 I had to turn aside into the jungle and hide myself till they 

 had passed, to avoid a catastrophe which would increase 

 the dislike with which I was already regarded. Every day 

 about noon the buffaloes were brought into the village, and 

 were tethered in the shade around the houses ; and then I 

 had to creep about like a thief by back ways, for no one could 

 tell what mischief they might do to children and houses were 

 I to walk among them. It I came suddenly upon a well where 

 women were drawing water or children bathing, a sudden 

 flight was the certain result ; which things occurring day aft- 

 er day, wei*e veiy unpleasant to a person who does not like 



