. The history of mankind . TheIlongotes of Luzon erect at the tops of trees their forest-huts, made from theleaves of the ;//)V?-palm and bamboo, and supported on tree-stems. Each of these DRESS, WEAPONS, AAD OTHER PROPERTY OF THE MALAYS 423 little houses serves as a tranquil abode for a whole family. The Orang-Sakei andthe Lubus of Sumatra also live to some extent in trees. The Ilongotes place prickly bamboo stems round their huts for security, sticksharp arrows in the ground, and make pit-falls, so that even a friend needs toannounce his arrival some way off. Night and day sentries are poste
. The history of mankind . TheIlongotes of Luzon erect at the tops of trees their forest-huts, made from theleaves of the ;//)V?-palm and bamboo, and supported on tree-stems. Each of these DRESS, WEAPONS, AAD OTHER PROPERTY OF THE MALAYS 423 little houses serves as a tranquil abode for a whole family. The Orang-Sakei andthe Lubus of Sumatra also live to some extent in trees. The Ilongotes place prickly bamboo stems round their huts for security, sticksharp arrows in the ground, and make pit-falls, so that even a friend needs toannounce his arrival some way off. Night and day sentries are posted. WhenSpanish troops are looking for a fugitive criminal, their approach is known longbefore, and if it is not desired to give the criminal up, nothing can be done ; theyhide in the forest where bullets cannot reach them. The only thing is to burntheir huts ; and these, says Schadenberg, are rebuilt in a day, as soon as thesoldiers are gone. A further characteristic of Malay architecture is the steep roof, often 50 feet. Mail-coats worn by the Dyaks of South-east Borneo. high, and coming far down. In the Alfur huts it comes down to the ground, andat the back side at once includes and shuts off the fire-place. It is a gable roofabove a rectangular or square ground-plan. Round edifices are as scarce here asin Africa they are common. In Timor we find them oval, with conical roof; inTabelo there are octagonal huts ; in the Nicobars, dome-shaped roofs with angularsubstructure of stakes. In rectangular buildings the walls usually have an outwardslope. The thatch is of palm leaves. In more elaborate houses, such as the out-buildings of chiefs dwellings, the walls are prettily wattled with palm fibres. Thegable end often bears buffalo-heads carved in wood, and other emblems, or inscribedtablets of the nature of amulets. In windy uplands the roofs are protected bypoles from being blown off. The interior arrangements vary with the degree of civilization, and dependfurther upon the chara
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