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Updated: June 22, 2025
Evidently the birds gave their permission to bring the travelers home, for in spite of many halts, the savages still moved forward. They had been struggling for some miles through underbrush and prickly rattan and the white men's clothes were torn and their hands scratched.
When they were dry, Nagami was taught to add a rim to her basket, by sewing it over and over as in the picture. Then Akoko said, "Good, my little Bird-Singer, you have done well, you have made some old black roots into a beautiful basket." N.B. The Guide will remember that rattan and raffia can be used for this when it is impossible to get spruce roots and willow bark.
Then, with the lowered rattan- screens rattling desperately in the wind and the bungalow shaking all over, Freya would sit down to the piano and play fierce Wagner music in the flicker of blinding flashes, with thunderbolts falling all round, enough to make your hair stand on end; and Jasper would remain stock still on the verandah, adoring the back view of her supple, swaying figure, the miraculous sheen of her fair head, the rapid hands on the keys, the white nape of her neck while the brig, down at the point there, surged at her cables within a hundred yards of nasty, shiny, black rock-heads.
Djobing had been here four years and had a wife in his native country. There are said to be 150 Malays engaged in gathering rattan, and, no doubt, also rubber, in these vast, otherwise uninhabited upper Dusun lands. What with the absence of natives and the scarcity of animals and birds, the time spent here waiting was not exactly pleasant.
Jones has not ventured to the Lake since that time, and Brown is afraid to tell him that the snake in the boat was only a piece of rattan. If you want to see snakes come to Suffolk and get Brown to go with you to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, and he will amuse you to your heart's content.
Scantily furnished, and with a waxed floor, it opened into one of the side-verandas. The straggling building of bricks, as airy as a bird-cage, resounded with the incessant flapping of rattan screens worried by the wind between the white-washed square pillars of the sea-front.
The husband is fond of singing, and, accompanying himself by striking the rattan strings attached to the back of a shield, he may occupy himself in this way until the small hours of the morning.
"If you haven't a rattan do the best you can with a creeper." It is difficult to say exactly at what age puberty begins with the youths. The girls mostly begin their courses in the fourteenth or fifteenth year.
The outer rind of the Bamboo, split and shaved thin, is the strongest material for baskets; hen-coops, bird-cages, and conical fish-traps are very quickly made from a single joint, by splitting off the skin in narrow strips left attached to one end, while rings of the same material or of rattan are twisted in at regular distances.
"I knew," she said, sinking into a rattan chair tied up with blue ribbons, like an over-dressed baby, "that these rooms had an air which suggested youth and beauty. I don't wonder your heart is sore to lose them." "Ah, it's broke it is, 'm!" the voice breaking in sympathy, "for I've looked upon 'em as my own, entirely, and it's nigh to eighteen year, now.
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