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" My attention was attracted to them by two Perai lying 

 close to them, with their heads up stream, as the men said, 

 engaged in watching their eggs. Procuring one of the roots, 

 I examined it, and found amongst it numbers of single eggs 

 and clusters of small, jelly-like young, which had been already 

 hatched. The eggs were white, and of about one-eighth of an 

 inch in diameter, with a hard exterior. The young were very 

 little larger, and had a glutinous surface, which caused them 

 to adhere together on being taken from the water. They had 

 not acquired any powers of locomotion, but could just wriggle 

 their tails like tadpoles. 



" "Under a lens they resembled the egg devoid of its covering, 

 with a gelatinous ridge around three-quarters of its circum- 

 ference, one end of which expanded into a knob (probably the 

 head), while the other termination was flattened and tail- 

 like. I could not detect any eyes or mouth in them, but 

 their bodies were speckled with grey markings of colouring 

 matter." 



Stedman mentions the fish under the title of Peery. 



The Waraw palm-dwellers (see .^ta) dispose of their dead 

 simply by dropping the bodies into the lake, where the flesh 

 is rapidly stripped from the bones by the Perai, just as our 

 ants can do with frogs, mice, and small birds. If the deceased 

 should happen to be a man of importance, the body is lowered 

 in a net, and the skeleton, when quite cleaned, is drawn up, 

 dried, painted red, and hung in the hut. 



Peteel, Stoemy {Thalassidroma pelagica). — This bird is too 

 well known to need description. 



Phaeton. See "Tropic Bird." 



Pi-pi-YO. Nothing is known of the bird, except that its 

 cry is shrill, and is thought to resemble the syllables forming 

 its name. 



Pine Apple (^Ananassa sativa). 



PiwAERi. — It is singular that a drink prepared as isPiwarri 

 should not only have been invented and drunk at all. but 

 that it should have been employed by nations who could have 



