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A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



in a rude cradle or Siwela, a rough rattan basket suspended so 

 as to rock over a fire in a smoke so dense that we were 

 amazed that it was not suffocated. Occasionally the nurse drops 



CARVED COMB, OENAMESTED WITH INLAID BONE. 



to sleep, and the fire burns the bottom out of the Siwela, and' 

 the child is worse off than if it had been bitten by all the mos- 

 quitos of Larat, to be free from which it is so suspended. The 



