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Now we live in these poor jungles of the Upper Pêrak valley, where the yams and roots are less sweet and less plentiful than in our former home, and where the fish-traps are often empty, and the game wild and scarce. Does the Tûan ask why then we quitted the valley of the Plus, and the hills of Lĕgap, where once our camps were pitched?
Arrival at Florida Blanca The Schoolmaster's House Kept by Pupils in their Master's Absence Everyday Scenes at Florida Blanca A Filipino Sunday A Visit to the Cock-fighting Ring A Strange Church Clock and Chimes Pugnacious Scene at a Funeral Strained Relations between Filipinos and Americans My New Servant Victoriano, an Ex-officer of Aguinaldo's Army, and his Six Wives I Start for the Mountains "Free and easy" Progress of my Buffalo-cart Ascent into the Mountains Arrival at my Future Abode Description of my Hut and Food Our Botanical Surroundings Meetings with the Negritos Friendliness and Mirth of the Little People Negritos may properly be called Pigmies Their Appearance, Dress, Ornaments and Weapons An Ingenious Pig-arrow Extraordinary Fish-traps Their Rude Barbaric Chanting Their Chief and His House Cure of a Malarial Fever and its Embarrassing Results "Agriculture in the Tropics" A Hairbreadth Escape Filipino Blowpipes A Pigmy Hawk in Pigmyland The Elusive Pitta Names of the Birds A Moth as Scent Producer Flying Lizards and other kinds A "Tigre" Scare by Night Enforced Seclusion of Female Hornbill.
Across this strait stakes were driven in, leaving only spaces for the basket fish-traps. A score of men were busily engaged in taking out the fish. We tried to purchase some, but they refused to sell. The fish did not belong to them, they would send for the proprietor of the place. The proprietor arrived in a short time, and readily sold what we wanted.
High on the bank lay one of the long cornucopia-shaped basket fish-traps, and presently he caught sight of something in the bleak Arctic landscape that made his heart jump, something that to Florida eyes looked familiar.
"Do come, Bob," said Philip, putting in his appeal to the rough and dusty object before him an appeal not without its effect, for Bob gave a very dusty smile; and then, reaching down a bunch of keys from a nail in the wall, proceeded with one of them to open a door which led down a dark flight of damp stairs to the under regions of the mill, where the two great toothed wheels were swiftly revolving dripping with water, and looking horribly wet, slimy, and muddy; while between them, and on each side, were what Harry had called the fish-traps: large contrivances of strong laths about half an inch apart, forming very wide and deep cages, down into which, in a torrent, the water rushed and passed through of course leaving therein everything in the shape of fish that had been brought down by the swiftly speeding current.
To catch fish they also make small weirs and dams of stones, with narrow passages of stones leading to them. The fish are swept by the current into these yards, and there either caught by the blacks with their hands, or speared. The most celebrated of these stone fish-traps is at Brewarrina on the Barwon.
It is because her periodicity is taken as evidence of her communion with spiritual forces that special precautions have to be taken concerning her. She becomes spiritually contagious. Thus, the natives of New Britain, while engaged in making fish-traps, carefully avoid all women. They believe that if a woman were even to touch a fish-trap, it would catch nothing.
The men with him said 'Kaiomi' to everything I asked, and that means 'No savvy. Says he'll teach me he'll teach all of us how to snow-shoe." "We know how to snow-shoe." "Oh, I mean on those long narrow snow-shoes that make you go so fast you always trip up! He'll show us how to steer with a pole, and how to make fish-traps and and everything." Mac began measuring out some tea.
A certain percentage of spirit is consumed in the Delta, and if spirits are wanted anywhere they are wanted in the Niger Delta region; and about one-eighth part of that used here is used for fetish-worship, poured out on the ground and mixed with other things to hang in bottles over fish-traps, and so on to make residences for guardian spirits who are expected to come and take up their abode in them.
Prelatt, whether I would have any time aside from the fish-traps and the collecting, and if so, if I might work with the man who is going to take that up." The director shook his head. "No," he answered, "there are two men working on that subject together. Besides which, you will have but very little time, at least for a couple of weeks.
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