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copied from those of other tribes in the interior. Tlic 

 Mafulu build a different kind of pile dwelling which has 

 a peculiar hood-hke porch. 



All the Negritos have the bow and arrow. The Great 

 Andamanese bow is peculiar while that of the Little 

 Andamanese appears to resemble that of the Semang. 

 The Great Andamanese and the Tapiro have very long 

 bows. Harpoon arrows with iron points are used by the 

 Andamanese and Aeta, the arrows of the Andamanese, 

 Semang and Aeta are nocked, but only those of the two 

 latter are feathered. No nocked or feathered arrows 

 occur in New Guinea. Only the Semang and Aeta are 

 known to poison their arrows, and they may have 

 borrowed the idea from the poisoned darts of the blow- 

 pipe. Some Semang have adopted the blow-pipe. 



The Andamanese appear to be one of the very few 

 people who possess fire but do not know how to make 

 it afresh. The Semang usually make fire by "rubbing 

 together short blocks of wood, bamboo or cane. A 

 common method consists in passing a rattan line round 

 the portion of a dried branch, and holding the branch 

 down by the feet whilst the hne is rapidly worked to 

 and fro with the hands." Flint and steel are also used. 

 (The Sakai employ similar methods.) (Skeat and Blagden, 

 I, pp. 111-114, 119.) Among the Aeta flint and steel 

 have almost replaced the old method of making fire by 

 one piece of split bamboo being sawed rapidly across 

 another piece. Semper collected from Negritos of N.E. 

 Luzon, a split stick, bark fibre and a strip of rattan 

 used in fire-making, these are described and figured by 

 A. B. Meyer (Publ. der K. Ethn. Mus. zu. Dresden, ix, 

 Negritos, p. 5, pi. 11, fig. 7 a-c). It is interesting to find 

 that the Tapiro employ the same method and apparatus 

 (p. 200). Thus there occurs among Negritos in the 

 Philippines and New Guinea the method of making 

 fire by partly spUtting a dry stick, keeping the ends 



