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 leaves. Roots of many kinds were there, some sour jungle fruits and berries, and a miscellaneous col- lection of nastinesses, including the altogether too human corpse of a small monkey with its pink flesh showing in places bencath its wet fur. This was quickly skinned and gutted and set to roast in the cleft of a split stick, while Ka' divided the rest of the trash among those present with extreme nicely and care. Food is so important to the wild Sakai, who never within human memory have had sufficient to eat, that the right of every member of the tribe to have a proportionate share of his fellows' gleanings is recognized by all. No man dreams of devouring his own find until it has been cast into the common. stock; and in time of stress and scarcity, if a single cob of maize has to be shared by a dozen Sâkai, the starving creatures will eat the grain row by row, passing it from one to the other so that each may have his portion.

As the night wore on the Sâkai settled themselves to sleep in the warm, gray ashes of the fires, waking at intervals to tend the blaze, to talk disjointedly, and then to stretch themselves to rest once more. The younger men took it in turn to watch in the treetops on the downriver side of the camp; but no attempt to disturb them was made by the raiders, and at dawn they broke camp and resumed their weary flight.

The Malay Peninsula is one of the most lavishly watered lands in all the earth. In the interior it is not easy to go in any direction for a distance of half