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strength ; it is made not of bamboo, but of black 

 close-grained wood ; the string, however, is bamboo, 

 like that of Erroob. All the arrows we saw were 

 also slenderer than those of Erroob. We got the 

 frame of a drum, similar to, but smaller than that of 

 Erroob, a long flat wooden sword, of very heavy 

 black wood, and some stone hatchets. These were 

 similar to those of the South Sea Islanders — some 

 made of jade, others apparently of a more earthy 

 rock, a kind of flinty slate. The stones were bound 

 round with splinters and inserted in handles of wood. 

 We also got two instruments tied together, and 

 which we always observed slung at the backs of the 

 natives, the use of which we could not make out. 

 These were a cane loop, with a toggle or handle, and 

 a bamboo scoop, with a handle bound round with 



twine, in which small beads (or seeds) were inserted. 

 I afterwards saw some of these among the natives 

 at Erroob, who said they came from Dowdee. 

 They called the first " sungei," and the second 

 * koiyor ;" and said the first was for twisting round 

 people's necks, and the second for cutting their 

 heads off — which merely showed they did not know 

 what their real use was, as they are not at all 



