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Updated: June 5, 2025
In pursuit of their avocation, death from disease, or from the spears or clubs of the treacherous, betel-chewing, stark-naked cannibals among whom they dwelt was ever near, but to the men of their iron resolution and dauntless courage that mattered not.
On the other hand, it may be doubted whether the chances are not greatly against independent peoples arriving at the manufacture of a boomerang, or of a bow; which last, if one comes to think of it, is a rather complicated apparatus; and the tracing of the distribution of inventions as complex as these, and of such strange customs as betel-chewing and tobacco-smoking, may afford valuable ethnological hints.
At his side he wore a long slender knife and a little pouch containing the materials for betel-chewing. "Yes, and he is as good as he looks," said the hermit.
Above the rapids the Malays plant enough gambir to supply the wants of the whole betel-chewing population of Pahang, and, as the sale of this commodity wins them a few dollars annually, they are too indolent to plant their own rice.
"Are you comfortable, uncle? And are you not afraid of falling down?" "Why should I fall?" seriously answered the "uncle," expectorating a red fountain an unavoidable result of betel-chewing. "I do not breathe, mam-sahib!" "What do you mean? A man cannot do without breathing!" exclaimed I, a good deal astonished by this wonderful bit of information. "Oh yes, he can.
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