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1)YAK BRIDGES. 



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circuit, to carry the path along the face of a precipice. In 

 all these cases the bridges they construct are of Bamboo, 

 and so admirably adapted is the material for this purpose, 

 that it seems doubtful whether they ever would have 

 attempted such works if they had not possessed it. The 



DVAK CROSSING A BAMBOO BRIDGE. 



Dyak bridge is simple but well designed. It consists 

 merely of stout Bamboos crossing each other at the road- 

 way like the letter X, and rising a few feet above it. At 

 the crossing they are firmly bound together, and to a large 

 Bamboo which lays upon them and forms the only path- 

 way, with a slender and often very shaky one to serve as a 



