144 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO chap. 



well as several birds. The tiger-cat {Felts nebulosa) 

 and the bear {Ursus Malayanus) are hunted for 

 their skins and teeth, and the dried gall-bladder of 

 the bear is sold for medicine. 



The pig and deer are most commonly hunted on 

 foot by a party of several men with a pack of four 

 or five dogs. The dogs, having found the trail, 

 chase the pig until he turns on them. The dogs 

 then surround the pig, barking and yelping, and 

 keep it at bay till the men run up and despatch it 

 with their spears. Both men and dogs sometimes 

 get severely bitten and torn by the tusks. During 

 the fruit season the pigs migrate in large herds and 

 cross the rivers at certain places well known to the 

 hunters. The people lie in wait for them in little 

 huts built on the banks, and kill them from their 

 boats as they swim across. 



Kenyahs and Klemantans sometimes catch deer 

 by driving them into a jaring. This consists of a 

 strong rope of plaited rattans stretched in a straight 

 line across the jungle, from tree to tree, some five 

 feet above the ground. It is generally laid so as 

 to complete the enclosure of an area that is almost 

 surrounded by the river. Dependent from the 

 whole length of the rattan rope is a series of running 

 nooses also of rattan, each of which, overlapping its 

 neighbours on both sides, forms a loop about two 

 feet in diameter. Men armed with spears are 

 stationed along the jaring at short intervals, and 

 the rest of the party with the dogs beat the jungle, 

 driving any deer in the enclosed space headlong 

 towards th^ jaring. Some of the deer may escape, 

 but some will usually run their heads into the 

 nooses and fall victims to the spears of the watchers. 

 Both pig and deer are sometimes brought down 

 with the blow-pipe, especially by the Punans, whose 

 favourite weapon it is. 



The wild cattle are very wary and dangerous to 



