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132 Eandhook of the covering, and is a great favourite with all natives and with many Europeans. Its smell is offensive, hut with this there is strangely associated a delicious flavour which gives it, notwithstanding the odour, a foremost place among tropical fruits. The durian is also much liked hy other animals hesides man. Bears, squirrels, tigers, elephants, cattle, horses, goats, monkeys, and dogs all eat it when they get the chance. The mangosteen is a delicious and wholesome fruit, ahout the size of an orange, and, in the opinion of many, is preferable to the durian. But natives much prefer the durian. During the seasons owners of orchards hve entirely upon the sale of their fruits. In many cases the produce of the gardens is farmed out, and this brings in an income to the owner without any trouble or labour on his part to collect the fruit for the market. Grood vegetables are rarely obtainable in Pahang. A little gardening is done by Chinese in the vicinity of one or two towns, but the produce they sell is not of high quality. European vegetables are not grown, but they may be purchased in limited variety preserved in tins. The number of buffaloes in Pahang is small; 17,576 according to a cattle census taken at the end of 1900. Almost all these animals belong to Malays who use them during the planting season for ploughing their padi fields. When not so employed, that is, for about nine months in the year, the buffaloes are left to their own devices and spend most of their time in the jungle. A few of these animals belong to Chinese who use them for dragging timber from the jungle. The number of bullocks in the State is returned at 388", while of horses there are probably not more than a score. Groats and sheep are almost as rare. Pigs are reared in the vicinity of towns by a few Chinese for the butcher, and poultry is as scarce as it is poorly fed and of inferior quality. This exhausts the list of live stock in Pahang, which is a country that is not well adapted to the breeding of any kind of stock. Einderpest frequently plays great havoc among cattle in Pahang. During 1900, over 5,000 buffaloes and many bullocks succumbed to the disease.
— — Federated Malay States, 133 Fishing is an important soiirce of livelihood to East Coast Fish and levies. Malays in general. No restrictions in the shape of taxes are Ftshe-placed on river fisheries in Pahang, because the fish caught is primarily intended for the consumption of the peasants themselves, and, except in a few instances, is not meant for sale. In the interior villages, most of the fishing is done by women who are satisfied with sufficient for their own immediate requirements. The fishing class of natives in places such as Penang, Singapore, Ceylon, Burmah, and India, is notoriously a turbulent one, and disputes, often amounting to serious disturbances, are by no means uncommon among them. But, in Pahang, the reverse is the case, and there is no instance on record in river fisheries in this State in which any dispute or trouble has been caused over questions connected with fisheries. All Malays in Pahang have an equal right to fish in rivers, and each owner of a swamp or pond has the exclusive right of fishing in his property, and thus, by the observance of these simple and primitive rules, no trouble is ever caused. There are four modes of river fishing practised in Pahang : (i) nets, (ii) traps, (iii) stakes, (iv) lines. Of the first, there are five kinds of nets used, called, respectively, anggoh or doran, chendek, Jala, Jaring, and pukat. These are all worked each in a different manner, but, in point of general acceptance and popularity, the pukat comes first and the jaring next, a considerably larger quantity of fish being caught by means of these two nets than is the case when any of the others are used. Of traps, there are no less than eleven kinds employed in different parts of the State, viz. : bubu or liikah, ranggas, singgit, sukap, timr, setapu, temilan or pengilan, terubin, sibar, tanggok, and Jut. Most of these traps are made of rattan, or some specially light wood, such as bembau or kerdau, and those most fancied by the people who use them are bubu or lickah, ranggaa, setapu, and sukap. There are four kinds of fishing stakes used, named, blat, Jerernal, langgai, and merian, and of these blat finds most favour. With regard to line-fishing, the term Joran is applied to the rods, and the reels are called variously, pupal, kekili, pret, and ampoyan. Hooks, in general, are termed kail, but kail rendang is applied to a hook baited with vegetable matter, and kail pepas is a hook used in way in which a fly-fisher uses his rod. the River fish is obtainable in great variety, there being no fewer than 43 different kinds in Pahang waters. They are
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