158 G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



them up is obvious from the rows of boar skulls ornamenting a grave at Nimbûran (fig. 171) 

 namely as a hunting trophy, evidently intended to honour the deceased as a great hunter. 



When the natives get hold of little live pigs they rear them as is known ; even some- 

 times at the beginning the women suckle them, as FlNSCH [1888, 53] and PRATT [1906, 330] 

 often saw and Pfeil [1899, 19] also mentions of New Mecklenburg. This probably explains 

 the attachment the natives often show for thèse animais and the tears which the people on 

 the Utanata River shed after having sold a pig to Boudijck Bastiaanse [1845, y?}. Ail the 

 pigs at Angâdi were said to hâve been caught wild and at Asé a very young one was brought 

 up by the men of the watch-house opposite m y tent, not always very gently, it is true, but 

 though it was strolling about by day, trying to gather its food, it was always shut up at 

 night in a wooden trellised cage, warânga, standing on the platform. So we see a hunting- 

 people in the âge of stone, getting settlers, taming game and making it a domestic animal; 

 also the next step is taken, the domestic animal is bred, cattle rearing is started. The tamed 

 swine indeed seem to feel attached to man and his settlement and do not return to their 

 wild state ; in the villages on Lake Jamur, where the population had fled at the approach 

 of the expédition, the pigs, as usual, remained near the dwellings. For swine breeding at Asé 

 I saw two little sheds, fâre, purposely built on the shore, the walls made of planks of old 

 boats, the watertight roof of palm leaves (fig. 10 1). A sow with some six little pigs, going 

 about freely by day, was shut up in such a shed during the night. Thèse animais are occa- 

 sionally fed, as BlRO [1901, 54] also mentions of K. W. Land, though I never saw it myself, 

 but they continually went into the shallow water under the dwellings to look for refuse. 



For the rest, however, the number of pigs was not so large that they could be traded 

 in. but the neighbouring Ifâr, where there were a great many, may be supposed to do so. In 

 villages built on banks, not connected with the shore, swine rearing cannot be imagined. 

 From Waba, where the dwellings are connected with the shore, BlNK [1897, 157] mentions 

 the great number of pigs, which fact however did not strike me in 1903. In the country of 

 Sëkâ on the contrary, under the dwellings built on the shore, I saw a large number of pigs amidst 

 the firewood piled up around, and there some swine rearing is carried on, which largely 

 contributes to the prosperity of those villages. With the Sëkânto, dogs and pigs went about 

 inside the dwellings built on a level with the ground, but thèse two species of animais are 

 constantly at war with each other. Just as FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 201] states, the tamed pigs 

 behave very peevishly towards man, and at Angâdi one of the big swine very nearly 

 stole some chops from the pan while several members of the expédition were standing 

 around it in culinary occupations. Together with the dogs they were little profitable for our 

 night's rest. 



The crocodile is pretty generally hunted in N. G. In Wandâmèn (DE Clercq and 

 SCHMELTZ [1S93, 114]) it is shot with bow and arrow, where the hunter tries to hit the 

 animal in the fleshy part of its body behind the forelegs. In K. W. Land, according to 

 HaGEN [1899, 247], it is killed with spears, some of which are put like a fence round the 

 animal while it is sleeping on the shore, whilst the other spears are used to finish the animal 

 with thrusts into eyes, breast and throat; sometimes it is attacked on its return to the water. 

 In Humboldt Bay and in villages on the coast the crocodile seems to be an object both 

 of fear and honour and therefore it is not hunted ; in the western villages on Lake Sentâni, 



