Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . ly noting that they were masters in their craft,I permitted them to fell forest giants in close proximityto our tents, some of which landed but half a metre dis-tant. Immense specimens in their fall brought downthickets of creepers and smaller growths which producedbig openings, so we succeeded in making quite a sunnycamp in the dark jungle. Since that experience I have made it an invariablerule in my travels to cut a small clearing before puttingup my tent in the jungle. S
Through Central Borneo; an account of two years' travel in the land of the head-hunters between the years 1913 and 1917 . ly noting that they were masters in their craft,I permitted them to fell forest giants in close proximityto our tents, some of which landed but half a metre dis-tant. Immense specimens in their fall brought downthickets of creepers and smaller growths which producedbig openings, so we succeeded in making quite a sunnycamp in the dark jungle. Since that experience I have made it an invariablerule in my travels to cut a small clearing before puttingup my tent in the jungle. Sometimes the felling of oneor two trees will ameliorate the situation immeasurably,admitting fresh air and sunlight, and there is little diffi-culty about it when one is accompanied by such able andwilling men as the Dayaks. For their own use whentravelling they make simple shelters as night approaches,because they dislike to get wet. The material is alwaysclose at hand. Slender straight poles are quickly cut andbrought in to make frame-work for a shed, the floor ofwhich is about half .i metre above ground. The roof.
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