Castes and tribes of southern India Assisted by K Rangachari . o neeirly ended, a third was added, and shortlyafter the lowest branch of the tree was reached, alongwhich the young Dyak scrambled. The ladder wasperfectly safe, since, if any one peg were loose or faulty,the strain would be thrown on several others aboveand below it. I now understood the use of the line ofbamboo pegs sticking in trees, which I had often their search for produce in the evergreen forestsof the higher ranges, with their heavy rainfall, the Kadirsbecame unpleasantly familiar with leeches and bluebottle flies,
Castes and tribes of southern India Assisted by K Rangachari . o neeirly ended, a third was added, and shortlyafter the lowest branch of the tree was reached, alongwhich the young Dyak scrambled. The ladder wasperfectly safe, since, if any one peg were loose or faulty,the strain would be thrown on several others aboveand below it. I now understood the use of the line ofbamboo pegs sticking in trees, which I had often their search for produce in the evergreen forestsof the higher ranges, with their heavy rainfall, the Kadirsbecame unpleasantly familiar with leeches and bluebottle flies, which flourish in the moist climate. And itis recorded that a Kadir, who had been gored andwounded by a bull bison, was placed in a position ofsafety while a friend ran to the village to summon was not away for more than an hour, but, In thatshort time, flies had deposited thousands of maggotsin the wounds, and, when the man was brought intocamp, they had already begun burrowing into the flesh,and were with difficulty extracted. On another occasion,. KADIR TREE-CLIMBING. 17 kAdir the eye-witness of the previous unappetising incidentwas out alone in the forest, and shot a tiger two milesor so from his camp. Thither he went to collect cooliesto carry in the carcase, and was away for about twohours, during which the flies had, like the child in thestory, not been idle, the skin being a mass of maggotsand totally ruined. I have it on authority that, like theKotas of the Nilgiris, the Kadirs will eat the putrid andfly-blown flesh of carcases of wild beasts, which theycome across in their wanderings. To a dietary whichincludes succulent roots, which they upturn with a diggingstick, bamboo seed, sheep, fowls, rock-snakes (python),deer, porcupines, rats (field, not house), wild pigs,monkeys, etc., they do credit by displaying a hard, well-nourished body. The mealy portion of the seeds of theCycas tree, which flourishes on the lower slopes of theAnaimalais, forms a considerable
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