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the bow-cord, were 3 in. (76 mm.) from the tip of the
stock at the lower end, and \\ in, {-^^ mm.) from the tip
at the other. The length of the cord, which was made
of stout twisted jungle-fibre (probably manufactured
from the bark of the artocarpus or " t'rap " tree), was
about 68 in. (1907 mm.) from knot to knot.
The second bow was made of a different kind of
wood, which was of a dark brown colour, and polished.
Its over-all length was 71 in. (1983 mm.), and it was
rather thicker at the handle (i^ in. = 38 mm.); the
distance from the extreme upper tip to the shoulder
taking the upper knot of the bow-cord was i^ in.
(38 mm.) ; the corresponding measurement at the
lower extremity being 2 in. (5 cm.), and the length of
the cord itself, from knot to knot, 63 in. (160 cm.).
Together with the bows just described were a
couple of quivers containing poisoned arrows. Each
of these quivers was made from a bamboo internode,
the lower knot of which formed the bottom of the
quiver, but neither had any sort of cover or lid, the
projecting butt-ends of the arrows preventing it.
The body of the first quiver was made from a
particular kind of bamboo which appeared to me to
resemble the kind called " buluh kasap." It bore no
decoration of any description, and its diameter was
\\ in. (38 mm.), its length being 19^ in. (484 mm.).
In this latter measurement, however, is not included
a projecting spike which served as a foot when
planted in the ground, and which, in the present case,
measured 5 in. (126 mm.) in addition; so that its
over-all length was 24^ in. (611 mm.).
Its contents were a couple of arrows and one long
hornbill feather measuring 14.^ in. (344 mm.) in length.
The length of the first arrow (over-all) was 40 in.
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