Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

CHAP, in GENERAL REMARKS 171
The " long " or " communal " shelter, which is
nothing more than a round or "bee -hive"
hut extended to form an ellipse or oval.
Small granaries or store-huts on high posts,
and perhaps also huts which commence to
approach for the first time the Malayan hut-
type, but are still built on the level of the
ground.'
A hut similar to the last, but with Boor raised
on posts (which makes it still more conform-
able with the common Malayan hut-type).
we were still speculating, the difficulty
was solved. A large ape was observed
to leave one of the nests and descend
to the ground ; and he was soon followed
by eight or nine others, who all
walked about erect like men. We
watched ihem for a long time, and saw
them picking berries, or something else
of a similar kind, from the bushes.
Their actions were most human-like.
They walked ab
about 6 ft.[ 1 80 cm.], the internal diameter
about the same. The entrance was a
hole in the side, so small that we could
scarcely force our way in. The cordage
with which the huts were constructed
was made of some tough creeper, and
the strands were so loosely twisted
together that the least touch parted
them."— Bradley, pp. 297, 29S.
Elsewhere (J. H. pj). 319, 320) Capt.
Bradley mentions a settlement of fifteen
huts, "one or two" (he says) "in a
tree." On pp. 330, 331 he mentions
another of these tree-villages. " It "
(the village) " consisted of five huts buih
in the trees, and seven hovels erected
on the ground." "They were" (he
continues) " built of branches like those
described in a former chapter ; but
were overlaid with deer -skins."
Another settlement (described on p.
315) had four tree - huts only in
number.
' De Morgan, viii. 296.