236 CAGES, TRAPS, AND SPRINGES FOR BIRDS. 



the pigs, in hurrying down the declivity, often receive 

 them in the breast, and being thus staked, soon bleed 

 to death, and are discovered by the Dyaks. The 

 smaller kinds of game, such as porcupines, palandok, 

 or mouse-deer, small pigs, pheasants, and partridges, 

 are caught in springes, and by those alone a clever 

 woodsman can daily supply his family with this kind 

 of food in abundance, the cord made use of for the 

 springes is of their own manufacture, very fine and 

 strong; it is made from the inner bark of several 

 kinds of trees. They have also cage-traps, into which 

 the squirrels and mouse-deer are attracted by choice 

 food, and which fall upon and detain them. Pigeons 

 and other birds are caught with springes and bird- 

 lime placed in the trees which they frequent for food, 

 particularly the different species of ' kayu ara' (Ficus), 

 which are very abundant, and on which the many 

 species of these birds delight to feed. 



A practice of fishing, used by the Dyaks of all de- 

 scriptions, and which has been observed also of the 

 natives of South America, with whom these people 

 have many things in common, deserves particular 

 notice. It is called fishing with tuba, and is thus 

 carried on : large quantities of the tuba being col- 

 lected, which is the root of a climbing plant (Meni- 

 spermuin), though the same effect is produced by the 

 fruit of a tree grown extensively for that purpose, 

 the tribe intending to fish proceed in their boats to 

 the mouth of a small river, or creek, which has a bar 



