INHARITIISG THE MALAYAN PENINSULA, W 



trees and cerUiin roots furnish the princi- 

 pal part of their ordinary food. Those of 

 them who cnltivate rice sell a part of it to 

 the Malays, or cxchanf(e it for clothes ; with 

 the other part they live a few months of the 

 year. Tliey do not dislike the (lesh of do- 

 mestic animals, fowls, etc. as it had been 

 alleged; on the contrary, I remarked that 

 they prefer it to that of wild animals. 1 have 

 seen several of their houses wliere there 

 was a good quantity of fowls. Sonietimcs 

 they cook the flesh before they eat it, but 

 at other times tliey eat it raw ; some me- 

 rely put tlie animal upon the fire till the 

 hairs are singed, then they consider it as 

 cooked. I have seen some large monkeys 

 which, after having been thus cooked, were 

 dished up upon a kind of mat as a meal to 

 some seven or eight persons, who speedily 

 devoured the vvhulo in a few minutes, leav- 

 ing only tlie skeleton. In eating they use 

 no ftisli;jin iron frying-pan serves foi* cook- 



