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Updated: April 30, 2025
The billiong is no other than a large papatil, with a handle of two or three feet in length, turning, like that, in its socket. The chief cement they employ for small work is the curd of buffalomilk, called prakat. It is then taken off with a spoon, stirred about with the same in a flat vessel, and well washed in two or three waters.
They make nails however, though not much used by them in building, wooden pins being generally substituted; also various kinds of tools, as the prang or bill, the banchi, rembe, billiong, and papatil, which are different species of adzes, the kapak or axe, and the pungkur or hoe.
Most of their smaller work, and particularly on the bamboo, is performed with the papatil, which resembles in shape as much as in name the patupatu of the New Zealanders, but has the vast superiority of being made of iron.
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