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among tbem, although it is by no means improbable that 
the Ceramcse, who came here occasionally, may have eon- 
verted some of them to Mohammedanism, as is the case 
with several of the tribes lying a little further to the east- 
ward, of whom we shall have to spealc presently. 
''The weapons of the Outanatas consist of bows, 
arrows, lances, or throw ing-spears, and very neatly carved 
clubs. The bows and arrows, like those of the Dourga 
tribe, were madcj the first of bamboo or betel- wood about 
five feet long, with a string of bamboo or twisted rattan, 
and the arrows of cane or bamboo, with points of betel- 
wood hardened in the fire. Some of the points were 
shaped smootli, but others were hacked with barbs, or 
armed with fish-bones, the claws of eas80wary*s feet, or 
with the horns of saw -fishes. They had also a sort of 
axe, composed of a single stick, to which a large sharp 
pebble was fixed by a lashing of rattan, and with vvhich, as 
onr native interpreter informed ns, they could cut down 
the largest trees ; but we had no opportunity of witnessing 
their skill, 
Their canoes or prahus consist of a single tree hoi- 
lowed out by means of fire. The largest that we saw was 
sixty feet, and the smallest thirty-one feet long. They 
are very narrow, and both ends are fiat and broad above. 
Many are very handsomely can'cd, and two of them were 
ornamented at one end with festoon-work very skilfully 
performed, and covered with white plaster. They stand 
np to row, on which accomit their paddles are very 
long in the handle, with oval blades somewhat hollowed 
put. 
" The habitation of the Outanatas, which was erected 
