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One of my first objects was to inquire for the people who 

 are accustomed to shoot the paradise birds. They lived, at 

 some distance in the jungle, and a man was sent to call them. 

 When they arrived, we had a talk by means of the orang-kaya 



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as interpreter, and they said they thought they could get some. 

 They explained that they shoot the birds with a bow and arrow, 

 the arrow having a conical Avooden cap fitted to the end as large 

 as a tea-cup, so as to kill the bird by the violence of the blow 



