. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. reader may re-member that the Banyai tribe of SouthernAfrica have an axe made on a similarprinciple, though in their case the reversalis accomplished by cutting holes at rightangles to each other, through which theshank of the iron head can be passed. (Seep. 364, figs. 4, 5.) With this tiny instrument the Dyaks notonly sh
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. reader may re-member that the Banyai tribe of SouthernAfrica have an axe made on a similarprinciple, though in their case the reversalis accomplished by cutting holes at rightangles to each other, through which theshank of the iron head can be passed. (Seep. 364, figs. 4, 5.) With this tiny instrument the Dyaks notonly shape their planks, but cut down thelargest trees with a rapidity that an Englishworkman could scarcely equal, in spite of thesuperiority of his axe. They have a verycurious method of clearing away timberfrom a space of ground. They first cutaway all the underwood with their parangs,or choppers, and then, with their little axes,cut the larger trees rather more than halfthrough, leaving the largest to the last. Thistree is then felled, and, as all the trees arebound together with rattans and othercreepers,its fall. Although the iron which the Dyaks use ismostly imported, they are capable of smelt-ing their own metal by a very simple proc- it brings down all the others in. (1.) A DYAK VILLAGE.(See page 1149.)
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