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are captured in birdlime smeared on the limbs of 

 trees; they stay in it until some one goes up and 

 pulls them out. 



Another way of capturing small monkeys is by 

 means of a sweetened rag in a bottle. The bottle 

 is covered with green rattan and tied to a tree. The 

 monkey puts his hand through the neck and grabs 

 the rag. He cannot pull his hand out while it is 

 doubled up with the rag in it, and he hasn't sense 

 enough to let go. There he sticks, fighting with the 

 bottle, until the hunter comes along and, by press- 

 ing the nerves in his elbow, forces him to open his 

 hand and leave the rag for the next monkey. 



We snared and trapped many small animals and 

 occasionally built pit-traps for tapirs. The natives 

 sometimes used pits for marsh elephants, but I have 

 never seen elephants captured in them without 

 being injured. They are so heavy that they hurt 

 themselves in falling. 



The marsh elephants in Sumatra are not worth 

 the trouble of capturing, since they are weaker, 

 shorter lived and less intelligent than the other 

 breeds. They bring a low price, and consequently 

 only the babies, which can be handled and trans- 

 ported easily, ever reach the market. The usual 

 procedure among the natives is to shoot the mother 

 and take the baby. It is little like the real game 

 of elephant hunting as I found it later in Treng- 

 ganu and Siam. 



Dynamiting for fish is a great sport among the 



