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house, where the young unmarried men sleep, where 

 councils are held, and where travellers are lodged. The 

 houses are always raised on posts, often to a great height 

 where subject to attacks from other tribes ; or they are 

 built perched up on almost inaccessible mountains, only 

 to be reached Ijy ladders up the face of lofty precipices. 



DYAK VILLAGE. 



The Dyaks cultivate rice and many kinds of vegetables, 

 and have large plantations of fruit, which often cover 

 whole mountain sides, and furnish them with an im- 

 portant part of their food. They also grow tobacco and 

 sugar-cane for luxuries. Their weapons are spears, the 

 siimjntan or blow -pipe, snares, and pitfalls, and with 

 these they capture all kinds of wild animals for food. 

 They collect beeswax, edible birds' nests, and other pro- 



