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lizard, while the prowling tiger or leopard may 
attack and carry away a goat, or the former a 
buffalo. 
Other animals to be commonly seen in the 
villages are tame monkeys. The Pig-tailed Macaque 
and the Crab-eating Macaque are both kept to pick 
coconuts, but the former, a nasty-tempered and 
evil-looking brute, is more commonly employed than 
the latter. Well-trained monkeys are very clever 
at selecting and picking the ripe nuts. 
Malay As mentioned previously, the Malay is 
occupations, essentially a peasant proprietor, and 
except where he has taken up land to 
plant rubber, and relies upon this for his livelihood, 
he remains a padi-cultivator, though near the sea 
fishing tends to be the chief occupation of the native 
population. 
Both wet and dry-growing varieties of rice are 
cultivated, the former always on the flat — for irriga- 
tion of terraced highlands is not practised in the 
Peninsula — the latter generally in clearings on the 
hill-sides, but sometimes, and particularly in some 
districts, on flat land as well. 
In planting wet rice a nursery is first made in 
which the seed is sown thickly. The nursery is 
prepared so that the seedlings shall be ready to be 
transferred to the fields when these have been 
flooded ready to receive them. The preparation of 
the fields is governed by the advent of the rainy 
season. In the north-west of the Peninsula planting- 
out usually takes place in September and October,, 
harvest in March or April. 
The method of cultivation of the fields varies 
in different localities. In some a simple wooden 
plough, shod with iron, is used to break up the soil 
