[131] An illustration in Sir H. Johnston’s Liberia, ii. 406, shows a West African native climbing with only one ring and both arms and ankles free. Bates mentions an Indian climbing with only one ring used for the feet (Bates, ii. 196). The same method is to be found in Ceylon, among the Malays, etc. (cf. Skeat and Blagden, i. 51, 62, 85; Tennant, Ceylon, ii. 523; Partridge, Cross River Natives, p. 150, etc.).
[132] This is no uncommon thing among peoples of lower culture, but that it does not of necessity follow as a corollary to life in the bush is proved by some of the West African tribes who are most indifferent sportsmen. This is the case among sundry of the peoples of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, where a British official has before now had to train his shikari, if he hoped for successful sport.
[133] The blow-pipe, the gravitana in lingoa-geral, is known as the zarabatana among the Teffe tribes (Bates, ii. 236); the bodoquera on the Napo. Koch-Grünberg gives the following names for it: todike, Imitritä Miranya; uataha, Yavitero; uilipona, Uarekena; uapana, Yukuna; Mauipi, Katapolitani; mauipi or moipi, Siusi; mauipi or mauipi, Tariana (Aruak-Sprachen, p. 73).
[134] A species of Arundinaria.
[135] Bactus ciliata.
[136] The wood used is paxiaba-i, the Iriartea setigera (Spruce, ii. 522). This small palm grows from ten to fifteen feet high, with a stem of an inch to two inches in diameter. When dry the soft inner pith is removed, and the bore polished with a bunch of tree-fern roots pulled up and down (Wallace, p. 147).
[137] Jacitara (Bates, ii. 236).
[138] From the arbol-del-lacre (Hardenburg, Man, p. 136); Pao-de-lacre, Vismia guianensis (Spruce, ii. 522).
[139] Bombax (Wallace, p. 147); Eriodendron sp. (Sterculiaceae), (Spruce, ii. 523; Bates, ii. 237).
[140] Oenocarpus Batawa (Spruce, ii. 522).