The back of the comb is fastened into a piece of wood, which is plated with tin in front, and above is attached a plume of feathers from a cock's tail.

In other respects they scarcely differed from the people I was living with.

They brought me a couple of birds, some shells and insects; showing that the report of the white man and his doing had reached their country.

There was probably hardly a man in Aru who had not by this time heard of me.
Besides the domestic utensils already mentioned, the moveable property of a native is very scanty.

He has a good supply of spears and bows and arrows for hunting, a parang, or chopping-knife, and an axe-for the stone age has passed away here, owing to the commercial enterprise of the Bugis and other Malay races.