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house, where the young unmarried men sleep, where 
councils are held, and where travellers are lodged. The 
houses are always raised on posts, often to a great height 
where subject to attacks from other tribes; or they are 
built perched up on almost inaccessible mountains, only 
to be reached by ladders up the face of lofty precipices. 
DYAK VILLAGE. 
The Dyaks cultivate rice and many kinds of vegetables, 
and have large plantations of fruit, which often cover 
whole mountain sides, and furnish them with an im¬ 
portant part of their food. They also grow tobacco and 
sugar-cane for luxuries. Their weapons are spears, the 
sumpitan or blow-pipe, snares, and pitfalls, and with 
these they capture all kinds of wild animals for food. 
They collect beeswax, edible birds’ nests, and other pro- 
