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altlioiigh broad and flat, not being particularly remarkable. 
The deticiency of chin is, however, very observable, and 
tbe hair is invariably crisp and frizzled. Their chief food 
consists of roots and fruits, the spontaneous productions 
of the forests (for they have not aa yet learned to culti- 
vate the soil). To these they add the spoils of the 
chase, which are sometimes sufficiently abundant, as the 
woods abound in feathered game, as well as deer, wild 
pigs, and buffaloes. The garac is roasted, or rather 
scorched, and ia usually eaten on the spot where it 
has been slain, a measure, by the way, almost necessary 
when wild buffaloes fall into their hands, as these animals 
are sometimes of enormous size. Their weapons of 
war and the chase are bows and arrows (which last are 
carried in a quiver of bamboo), and lances of throwing- 
Bpears. Their domestic habits are thus noticed by M, 
Mallat, who does not, however, appear to have seen them in 
their mountain fastnesses, as was the case with M. De La 
Gironiere, whose description of a visit to one of the tribes 
we shall have to quote presently: "They lie down to 
sleep wherever the night overtakes them, cither in a tree 
or on the grass j and when the weather is cold, or the 
earth damp, they make a large fire, and roll themselves 
in the \>'arm ashes, or pass the night under the shelter of 
a spreading tree. 
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" Sworn enemies of the Indians (brown tribes) they have 
preserved a custom from which they never derogate, and 
which renders them exceedingly foniiidable. ^Mien a 
member of their family or one of their friends dies, one of 
them presents himself immediately among his companions 
