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the line of drivers (the boys) to the bottom of a wooded slope, probably because the boars, 

 preferring to hide in the marshy valleys during the heat in the day-time, only reluctantly 

 and slowly escape upward. The hunted boar did not escape the deadly shot. Neither dogs 

 nor nets were used, though FlNSCH [1888, 353] saw large nets there, such as he also saw 

 in K. W. Land and British New Guinea. D'ALBERTIS [iS8o, I, 417] also mentions those nets, 

 made of Pandanus fibres (WVAT GlLL [1885, 331]), and Pratt [1904, 6; 1906, 327] demonstrates 

 the position of the nets and how also the cassowary and the wallaby are driven into them. 

 During the stay of the expédition in Humboldt Bay, nets were never seen nor heard of. 



According to Nachrichten [1888, 230] the same way of hunting as described above of the Tobâdi 

 people, is used in K. W. Land, bow and arrow being the principal amis and the spear being less 

 frequently used. It is very remarkable that Hagen mentions the bow and bamboo arrow as the principal 

 weapon, while Finsch [18SS — 93, 190] gives an inferior place to thèse arms. Covered pits, hurdles and 

 screens are also mentioned: deep pitfalls are dug (Hagen [1899, 248]) which remain uncovered, into 

 which the boars fall at night; on the slope of Sattelberg (Nachrichten [18S9, 42]) a great many of those 

 pits were seen. In British N. G. pitfalls are also found (Macgregor [1897, 40]), sometimes with sharp 

 spear heads fixed in the bottom (Annual Report [1899 — 1900, 94]). Another way is that the hunting- 

 ground is set on fire on ail sides (Hagen, 1. c.) and the fainting animais are attacked with spears and arrows, 

 the opossums with clubs; whether the hunters, penetrating into this burning circle, protect their feet against 

 the hot ground is not mentioned. Mac Farlane [1888, 124], however, writes that the long grass in front 

 of th e ne t s is set on fire and the natives only take care that the game cannot escape at the sides. 



Apparently the ways of hunting in various parts differ according to local circum- 

 stances. Such a différence also exists between Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentâni, where boars 

 are only hunted with long and heavy lances (N°. 574 and 575). A hunting Company 

 consisting of Asé men, ail of them armed with those lances, is to be seen in fig. 99. The 



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Fig. 99. Asé men with lances for bear hunting. 



weapon is unique in length and weight. Among the 14 groups of lances made of Areca palm 

 wood that BlRO [1901, 106, PI. VIII] speaks of, there is none resembling the Asé boar 

 lance; most of them however hâve the circular notch near the end, to be seen on the BlRO 

 spécimens. The two objects from Asé measure 5.15 and 4.25 m. resp. Made of the same dark 



