. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. tly with open and interested eyes. There were between two and three hundred people congre-gated—a wild and savage-like crowd. The men were diin little more than the ordinary T-bandage or hahpolike ofnative make, about their loins; some, but not all, of themhad a kerchief girt about the head, while their hair wastwisted into a knot on the top or back of the head, 01 »mbed31 462 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS out into a crimped or semi-frizzled mop. Every man woresuspended over his shoulder
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. tly with open and interested eyes. There were between two and three hundred people congre-gated—a wild and savage-like crowd. The men were diin little more than the ordinary T-bandage or hahpolike ofnative make, about their loins; some, but not all, of themhad a kerchief girt about the head, while their hair wastwisted into a knot on the top or back of the head, 01 »mbed31 462 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS out into a crimped or semi-frizzled mop. Every man woresuspended over his shoulder a tais or plaid, which differed inornamentation and excellence of manufacture according to thedistrict in which it had been made. From his shoulder-knobdepended his coi, or wallet, the cords for whose opening andclosing were elaborately strung with circular disks of shellsalternating with dice-like beads of bone richly carved. Inthis is carried a store of betel-leaves and pinang-nut, withtobacco and other chewing necessaries, and the universalbamboo drinking-cup in case in his travels he should meet MWK. ORNAMENTED COMB. some friend or acquaintance who has a supply of palm-wine(laru) or of hanipa, as they name the coarse gin importedby thousands of cases every month into the country. Every man was armed with a spear and a long knife, andif he had not a long Tower flint-lock over his shoulder, hegrasped a bow and a handful of arrows, light shafts madeof the tall canes that grow everywhere in the island, tippedwith poisoned bamboo barbs. Many of them carried besidesa buffalo-hide shield to ward off the stones which, suddenlyenraged, they are in the habit of discharging—and with IN TIMOR. 463 wonderful power and accuracy—at each other. Most of themen had round the waist ammunition pouches of thick buffalo-hide, in form much like European cartridge-belts, with com-partments for the small bamboo cylinders in which they keepgunpowder, shot, flints, balls of lead or of ruby cr
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