264 TRAVELS IN THE EAST mDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



of it at one corner of om liouse is now filled witli 

 fruit of all sizes ; some small and green, and some 

 fully grown and showing it is already ripe by its 

 bi*iglit-pink color. In tiis condition the Malays 

 gather and dry it, and always carry a good supply 

 wherever they go. Its Malay name is Imnhoky hut 

 the one more generally used is the Javanese name 

 chahL Besides chickens, we have paddy, that is, I'ice 

 in the husk, A large elliptical hole is made in a log 

 for a mortar, a small quantity of paddy is then poured 

 in and pounded with a stick five or six feet long, and 

 as large round as a man*s ami. This is raised veiii- 

 cally^ and, when the hole is nearly even full, a native 

 will usually pound off all the husks without scatter- 

 ing more than a few grains on the gi-ound ; but, if a 

 foreigner attempts itj he will be sui'prised to see how 

 the rice will fly off in all directions at every blow. 

 When the husks are pounded off they ai'e separated 

 from the kernels by being tossed up from a shallow 

 basket and earned away by the wind, as our farmers 

 tised to winnow grain. This is the only mode of pre- 

 paring rice practised by the Malays, and the process 

 is the same in every pait of the archipelago. From 

 one comer of our piazza hangs a large bunch of green 

 l)ananas to ripen in the sunshine. I And it veiy 

 agi-eeable to pluck off a nice ripe one myself when I 

 come in weary and thii-sty from a long hunt. From 

 tlie other corner hangs a chister of cocoa-nuts filled 

 with cleai', cool, refreshing water. 



Not tar from us is a hnt inhabited by two na- 

 tives, who ai*e engaged in cultivating tobacco. Their 

 Imkmgs^ or gardens, are merely places of an acre or 



