THE COMMON ITOU. 841 



Salettian mode of hunting. 



4ierds, consisting of sometimes a thousand, from 

 one side -of the river Siak to the other, at its 

 mouth-, which is three or four miles broad, and 

 again return at stated times. This kind of pas- 

 sage also takes place in the small islands, by their 

 swimming from one to the other. On these oc- 

 casions they are hunted by a tribe of the Malays, 

 distinct from all the others of the island, who 

 live on the coasts of the kingdom of Siak, called 

 ixilettians. 



These men are said to discover the swine by 

 their scent long before they see them, and when 

 they do this they immediately prepare their 

 boats. They then send out their dogs, which 

 .are trained to this kind of -hunting, along the 

 strand, where, by their barking, they prevent the 

 swine from coming ashore and concealing them- 

 selves among the bushes. During the passage 

 the boars precede, and are followed by the fe- 

 males and the young, all in regular rows, each 

 resting its snout on the rump of the preceding 

 one. Swimming thus in close rows they form 

 a singular appearance. 



The Salettians, men aivd women, meet them 



in their small flat boats. The former row, and 



throw large mats, made of long leaves interwoven 



through each other, before the leader of each. 



row of swine, which still continues to swim with 



great strength.; but, -soon pushing their feet into 



the mats, they get so entangled as to be able 



-either no longer to move them, or only to move 



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