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tan was all laid out in two piles in cut lengths of 
twelve and ten feet and seventy-two pegs or bamboo 
stakes were driven into the ground. I myself had 
measured off the ground and stakes for length and 
width of nets. Twenty each, stakes for top and 
bottom, and sixteen stakes each for width. 
The first day was pretty nearly a tie, although 
one crew had started on another net and had got 
one-quarter of it finished when a halt was called for. 
the day. Nine nets on the following day, the crew 
that had one-quarter of a net finished the day before 
finishing four nets by four o’clock; the other two 
were practically tied, and as such I gave them 
credit; they had three and a half nets finished, and 
each of the crew received second prize money, three 
dollars each. There was great satisfaction, although 
the first crew with their five dollars each were strut- 
ting around and talking big. After finishing the 
half-made nets, I had twenty-one ten by eight rattan 
nets. Great work in four days; had I gone any 
other way about getting them, it would have taken 
twice as long. Even with the money prizes, they 
cost me on an average of only two dollars (Mexi- 
can) or one dollar each. 
The third day after the net-making contest, tak- 
ing fifteen men and loading their nets, large and 
small, on an elephant, we started off for a half day’s 
journey from the kampong to set up the nets on the 
ground and in the trees, also to dig pits at the water- 
holes. We had been moving on slowly, the first 
