. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. est is dried sea-foam which the birds bring from the sea on return-ing from their annual migration. The nests are built always on the roofs andwalls of large caves : the white nests in low-roofedcaves, generally in sandstone rock; the black in theimmense lofty caves formed in the limestone latter are reached by means of tall scaffoldingsof strong poles of bamboo, often more than a hundredfeet in height. The nests are swept from the rockwith
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. est is dried sea-foam which the birds bring from the sea on return-ing from their annual migration. The nests are built always on the roofs andwalls of large caves : the white nests in low-roofedcaves, generally in sandstone rock; the black in theimmense lofty caves formed in the limestone latter are reached by means of tall scaffoldingsof strong poles of bamboo, often more than a hundredfeet in height. The nests are swept from the rockwith a pole terminating in a small iron spatula, andcarrying near the extremity a wax candle ; fallingto the ground, which is floored with guano severalfeet thick, they are gathered up in baskets. Thewhite nests are gathered three times in the yearat intervals of about a month, the black nests usuallyonly twice; as many as three tons of black nestsare sometimes taken from one big cave in the courseof the annual gathering. Each cave, or, in the caseof large caves, each natural subdivision of it, isclaimed as the property of some individual, who. LIFE IN THE JUNGLE 157 holds it during his lifetime and transmits it to hisheirs. During the gathering of the nests of a largecave, the people live in roofless huts built inside nests are sold to Chinese traders—the blacknests for about a hundred dollars a hundredweight,and the white nests for as much as thirty or fortyshillings per pound. CHAPTER X WAR The Kayans are perhaps less aggressive than any-other of the interior peoples with the exception ofthe Punans. Nevertheless prowess in war has madethem respected or feared by all the peoples; andduring the last century they established themselvesin the middle parts of the basins of all the greatrivers, driving out many of the Klemantan com-munities, partly by actual warfare, partly by theequally effective method of appropriating to theirown use the tracts of jungle most suitable for t
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