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CHAP. VII SAVAGE MALAYS OF JOHOR 369
(which is mentioned by Logan), though I have little
doubt that many other light crops, such as tobacco,
are also grown by them when occasion happens to
serve.
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Horticulture.
Benua-Jakun of Johop.—Although their clearings did
not yield fruit, the Benua often planted young durian
trees and " chempedak " trees among their potatoes
and bananas. In after years they would revisit the
place, and if the trees had grown up and bore fruit
they would cut down the young jungle (" b'lukar ")
growing up around them, and thus reclaim their
orchard.-' In the forest Logan passed many of
these orchards, some of which contained durian trees
of great size and beauty. The durian groves were
frequently at a distance of one or two days' walk (or
even more) from the clearing, and families found it in
such cases more convenient and agreeable to resort to
the groves themselves than to have the fruit brought
to them. Slight temporary huts were therefore con-
structed beside the fruit-trees, and here they passed
the fruit season, which lasted from one to two months,
and only returned home when the last durian had
been gathered. In one of these groves, that of
Danlek, where Logan took advantage of the hut to
rest and pass the night, there were some smaller huts
on the ground, which appeared to have been specially
devoted to durian-eating, for while bushels of seeds
and husks were heaped around them, very few were
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J. I. A. vol. i. pp. 254, 255. spent upon clearing the trees around
' These orchards generally con- them. See account of Jakun orchards
tained from ten to twelve large durian iny. /. A. vol. ii. p. 261.
trees, and great care and trouble was
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