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wah-wah which had accompanied him on a visit here. 

 The natives told me that a child had become ill because 

 she could not help laughing at the ape when it ran after 

 the lieutenant and climbed one of his legs. According to 

 the blian, the little girl was very warm and feverish, but 

 he sang in the night, and next day she was well. 



Considerable similarity is evident in customs, manners, 

 and beliefs of the Long-Glats and the Oma-Sulings, 

 though the limited time at my disposal did not permit 

 me fully to investigate this subject. Bear-meat is not 

 eaten by either, and rusa (deer) and kidyang are not 

 killed, the latter especially being avoided. Sumpitans 

 are bought, and blians' shields such as the Penihings have 

 are not made. Both these tribes pray for many children, 

 which to them means larger ladangs and much food. The 

 wish of these peoples is to have ten children each. In view 

 of the fact that in Long Pahangei the number of women 

 was disproportionately small, the desire for large families 

 seemed unlikely to be gratified. Many men, some of 

 them old, were unmarried, but no women were single. 

 Twins sometimes occur, but not triplets. The mother 

 nourishes her offspring for about five years, the two 

 youngest suckling at the same time. A raja may marry 

 ten women, or more, and has a great marriage-feast of 

 more than a week's duration. Lidju, my Long-Glat 

 assistant, said that his fathd had fifteen wives, his grand- 

 father thirty, but it was no longer the fashion to have 

 so many. The common man (orang kampong) is allowed 

 only one wife. Divorces are easily obtained, and neither 

 suicide nor abortion is known. 



July is supposed to be the dry season, but rarely a day 



