The Badminton Magazine 1896-03: Vol 2 Iss 8 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 38
the midst of an impenetrable forest. The Dyaks have many traps always in use; their favourite is one which shoots a spear horizontally when the spring is released. It is set at different heights from the ground, proportionate to the size of the game expected. They bend a young tree like a bow and… … WITHIN SPEARING DISTANCE That sort of thing is effective but not interesting, unless you yourself happen to start the machinery when tramping through the woods. This peril is so serious that a white man never leads the march, and a Malay is very unwilling. Only Dyaks have such confidence in their…
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