A TRIP TO MT. PENRISSEN; SARAWAK. 3 
another is established by logs rounded or slightly flattened, 
generally as slippery as glass ; in fact within the village itself 
no one ever walks on the ground. Peniaiih the houses pigs 
oot and grunt, fowls cackle and boys fight, in а sodden mass 
of filth, the eflluvium from which Maite c freely through the 
open spaces between the floors of bamboo la ie The agite 
house in which we temporarily took r abode was 
well-built plank structure with billian мар ook two karah 
doors led out on to a sracious veranda tke back, which 
ingand sleeping. In the verandah wer couple of large 
bell- —Ó wooden vessels, half-filled with padi, and nearly 
all day long women were каш this by repeated thumpings 
lies „йине ed by 3 or 4 foot poles; when husked, the padi 
is thrown into circular sieves of rotan, and shaken till the husks 
ted off. 
kerchief generally =f siete his gar rb The women however 
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just below the knee to the ankle are encircled by rows of brass 
rings; a shell armlet and leglet generally topping each series 
of rings; even the little girls are burdened with these orna- 
ments, though otherwise innocent of clothing, and when a 
г of girls of different ages ате seen together it is 
E possible to trace a gradual distortion of the calf of 
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leaf. There w were ө few objects of аи interest {о Бе 
