. The history of mankind . pit, the Dyak blows his are light and thin, 1 o to 12 inchesin length, and made of bamboo. Thesharp point is poisoned, and for killinglarge animals the arrows are furnishedwith barbs. At the butt-end of thearrow is a piece of pith fitting the calibreof the tube, to serve at once as featherand gas-check. With these missilesa Dyak can bring down the smallestbird with accuracy at fifty yards dis-tance, so that the weapon is more effec-tive than the weak, unevenly made bowsused by the forest tribes of the Philip-pines with their clumsy arrows. Thequiver, made
. The history of mankind . pit, the Dyak blows his are light and thin, 1 o to 12 inchesin length, and made of bamboo. Thesharp point is poisoned, and for killinglarge animals the arrows are furnishedwith barbs. At the butt-end of thearrow is a piece of pith fitting the calibreof the tube, to serve at once as featherand gas-check. With these missilesa Dyak can bring down the smallestbird with accuracy at fifty yards dis-tance, so that the weapon is more effec-tive than the weak, unevenly made bowsused by the forest tribes of the Philip-pines with their clumsy arrows. Thequiver, made of bamboo, is providedwith hoops of plaited rattan and a bam-boo cover. The top is often adornedwith a snail-shell. The less civilizedFormosans carry bow and arrows ofgenuine Malay shape, and so also theAlfurs of Ceram. Their bows are ofiron-wood, the strings of rattan, thearrow-heads of iron or bamboo ; quiversthey have none. The Alfurs of Taranduuse both bow and blow-gun. A cross-bow of practical construction, not, like. Blow-gun, small quiver, and spears of the KahayanDyaks of South Borneo ; bow, arrows, and quiverfrom Poggi. (Munich Museum.) 4i6 THE HISTORY OF MANKIND that of the Fans shown on p. 86, apparent only, is found among the Nico-barese, together with a very simple bow for shooting pigeons. The poisoned arrows of Java and Borneo are among the most effective thatare known. The poison used in Java, called chettik, comes from the Strychnostiente ; another, antias, from Antiaris toxicaria, the Upas. Both affect the heart.
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