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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I918 



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Fig. 36. — To obviate the danger of specimens molding while in transit 

 from the collecting ground to the Museum, it was necessary to dr>;^them 

 in the hot sun for a short time before they were finally packed. A boy 

 was always detailed to guard drying specimens against domestic animals 

 such as pigs, fowls, goats, dogs and cats. 



Fig. y^. — A primitive method of plowing. The rice fields over- 

 grown with grass, since the last harvest, are flooded and plowed by 

 driving a herd of water bufifaloes around and around until the grass 

 is completelv trampled beneath the surface of the mud. 



