Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

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HUNTING, TRAPPING, AND FISHING
and suspended a small net in the opening. On this
net he kept his eyes intently fixed, and as soon as a
fish entered he raised the net and extracted it. The
rivers and streams abounded in fresh-water fish, and
there were about fifty species.'
Udai.—The Udai were described by Newbold as
preferring the delights of the chase to the drudgery of
agriculture ; they
employed the day in roaming the
forest, and subsisted on the fiesh of the animals that
they captured."
Orang Laut or Sea-Jakun.
Orang Laut, Sabimba.—To the blowpipe as their
principal weapon the Sabimba owed all that they could
obtain of the animals that lived in the trees of the
forest, whilst with their dogs (a " species of pariah ")
they hunted the wild hog."^
Orang Laut, Beduanda Kallang.— The Beduanda
Kallang were fishermen and foresters, and divided
their time between these two pursuits. They had
small fishing-stakes near the mouth of the river which
some of them visited in the mornings.''
Orang Laut, Akik.—The Akik were expert divers
and fishermen, and employed nets which they made
themselves.^
1 /. /. ./. vol. i. p. 256.
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/. /. A. vol. i. p. 347-*
2 Newbold, ii. 381, 382. * lb. p. 300.
'•> Newbold, ii. 413, 414.