in the IJland of Sumatra. 4I 



them in lemon juice, by which means the wounds they in* 

 iii£l prove highly dangerous, and' often mortal. 



Some of the Salettians inhabit alfo feveral fmall idandSj 

 not frequented bv the other Malay:^, which lie in the ftrait$ 

 of Sinkapoor; but thefe are not fo civilized as thofe who live 

 near Siak, and often while gut fifliing, or hunting fwine, 

 carry oft" many Purtuguefe and other fiihermen, whom they 

 fell as llaves. 



They hunt the fwine at fea at different periods, when thef« 

 animals, through natural initinft, emigrate as above men- 

 tioned. The Salettians, on thefe occafions, fmell the fwinq 

 long before they fee them, and make ready their boats. 

 They then fend out their dogs, which are trained to this 

 kind of hunting, along the Itrand, where, by their bark- 

 ing, they prevent the fwine from getting on fliore to 

 conceal thcmfelves in the bufti^s. During the palVage, th« 

 boars go firft, and are followed by the female fwine and the 

 young ones, all in regular rows, each refting its fnout on th<j 

 rump of the one before it. Thefe animals, fwimming ia 

 long rows clofe to each other, form a very linsjular fpedacle. 



The Salettians, men and women, meet thefe fwine in 

 their fmall flat boats. The former row, and throw large 

 mats, made of the long leaves of the fandamus odoratijjivia 

 interwoven through each other, before the leader of each 

 row of fwine, which flill continues to fwim with great 

 llrength ; but, foon pufliing his feet into the mat, gets fo 

 entangled that he can no longer move them, or moves theni 

 only in a very flow manner. The reft of the row, however, 

 are neither alarmed nor difconcerted, but keep clofe to each 

 other; and none of them leave the row. or the pofition in 

 which they are placed. The Salettians then endeavour to 

 row towards them in a lateral diro6liou ; and the bufincfs of 

 piercing the fwine is configned chieflv to the women, each 

 of whom is armed with a long large javelin, in the form of a 

 fpontoon, headed with iron, and with which they ilab as 

 many of the fwine as they can reach, aUvavs drawing 1 back 

 the weapon. Befides t,his inftrument, they have alfo a 

 number of fmalK r javelins, about fix feet in length, without 

 iron points, which they carry in their arms, and which the/ 

 throw to the diflancc of 30 or 40 paces, in fnch a manner 

 as to kill thofowhich they cannot reach with the long javelin. 

 As it y- iT]ipofIiblc for them to throw mats before all the rows, 

 or to kill all the fwine in fo (hort a time, the red of thefe ani- 

 mals fwim ofl in good order, and in regular rows, towards 

 the place where they are taught by in(tin(5l that they (hall 

 find better nouriflinient, and for this time efiane tiie danger 



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