He approaches the nest and smokes off the swarm, which, on quitting the exterior of the comb, exposes a beautiful circular mass of honey and wax, generally about eighteen inches in diameter and six inches thick.

The bee-hunter being provided with vessels formed from the rind of the gourd attached to ropes, now cuts up the comb and fills his chatties, lowering them down to his companions below.
When the blossom of the nillho fades, the seed forms; this is a sweet little kernel, with the flavour of a nut.

The bees now leave the country, and the jungles suddenly swarm, as though by magic, with pigeons, jungle-fowl, and rats.

At length the seed is shed and the nillho dies.
The jungles then have a curious appearance.

The underwood being dead, the forest-trees rise from a mass of dry sticks like thin hop-poles.
The roots of these plants very soon decay, and a few weeks of high wind, howling through the forest, levels the whole mass, leaving the trees standing free from underwood.