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are captured in birdlime smeared on the limbs of 
trees; they stay in it until some one goes up and 
pulls them out. 
Another way of capturing small monkeys is by 
means of a sweetened rag in a bottle. The bottle 
is covered with green rattan and tied toa tree. The 
monkey puts his hand through the neck and grabs 
the rag. He cannot pull his hand out while it is 
doubled up with the rag in it, and he hasn’t sense 
enough to let go. There he sticks, fighting with the 
bottle, until the hunter comes along and, by press- 
ing the nerves in his elbow, forces him to open his 
hand and leave the rag for the next monkey. 
We snared and trapped many small animals and 
occasionally built pit-traps for tapirs. The natives 
sometimes used pits for marsh elephants, but I have 
never, seen elephants captured in them without 
being injured. They are so heavy that they hurt 
themselves in falling. 
The marsh elephants in Sumatra are not worth 
the trouble of capturing, since they are weaker, 
shorter lived and less intelligent than the other 
breeds. They bring a low price, and consequently 
only the babies, which can be handled and trans- 
ported easily, ever reach the market. The usual 
procedure among the natives is to shoot the mother 
and take the baby. It is little like the real game 
of elephant hunting as I found it later in Treng- 
ganu and Siam. 
Dynamiting for fish is a great sport among the 
