. Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. d, excitedvoices. Our own party soon got excited, too, and,as may be imagined, I was longing to find out thecause of all this excitement. Vic soon told me thereason. It appeared that on the previous daya large party of our Negritos had gone into theterritory of the Buquils in order to get variouskinds of forest produce (as they had often donein the past), and had been treacherously attackedby these Buquils, and many of them killed. Oneof these was the brother of a sub-chief, who nowapproached us, and who was, I believe, th
. Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. d, excitedvoices. Our own party soon got excited, too, and,as may be imagined, I was longing to find out thecause of all this excitement. Vic soon told me thereason. It appeared that on the previous daya large party of our Negritos had gone into theterritory of the Buquils in order to get variouskinds of forest produce (as they had often donein the past), and had been treacherously attackedby these Buquils, and many of them killed. Oneof these was the brother of a sub-chief, who nowapproached us, and who was, I believe, the husbandof the frenzied woman. It was a very excitablescene that followed. I suppose one might call ita coTxncU of war. It was a mystery to me whereall the Negritos came from and how they found usout; but they came in ones and twos tiU there wasa huge concourse of them present, aU gatheredround their chief and squatting on the the only one who behaved sensibly wasmy friend the chief. He spoke in a slow anddignified manner, but the rest worked themselves. HO•A<Q O B s O H NEGRITOS IN A FURY 101 up into a furious rage, and twanged their bow-strings, and jumped about and fitted arrows totheir bows, and pointed them at inoffensive papaya trees, whilst two little boys shot smallarrows into the green and yeUow fruit, seeming tocatch the fever from their elders. One manactually danced a kind of war-dance on his ownaccount, strutting about with his bow and arrowpointed, and getting into aU sorts of grotesqueattitudes, moving about with his legs stiffened,and pulling the most hideous faces, tiU I was forcedto laugh. But it seemed to be no laughing matter forthe Negritos. The old woman beat them all; shedid not want anyone to get in a word edgeways,but screamed and yeUed, almost foaming at themouth, till I almost expected to see her fall downin a fit. I never before witnessed such a displayof fury. Vic kept me well advised as to the progress ofthe proceedings, and it w
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