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home, tiie husband leaves hoaie, heats llie 

 forest, and so me times returns with large 

 pieces of venison, hut sometimes with no- 

 tiiing; and on sucli days they go to sleep 

 u ithout supper. Tiiis is the ordinary even- 

 hig work, when the sun is near setting. 

 Ill tlie day time they remain at home, where 

 thev prepare arrows and the weapons, the 

 matter with which they poison their arrows; 

 they cook aiid eat the animals caught the 

 day before, and build or repair their hou- 

 ses, etc. Many of ihein cultivate plantains, 

 yams, which thev call klades, and several 

 other vegetables. 1 Iiave seen amongst the 

 Jakunsot" Johore some who had large iields 

 of rice : they cultivate this grain in the fol- 

 lowing way : they choose in the forest a 

 place where the ground appears to be fa- 

 vorable for such a purpose, they cut all 

 the trees, m a space more or less large ac- 

 cording to the number of persons and tlie 

 quanlity of rice they inlerul t(» plant; they 



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