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ARCHERY IN THE WILDS OF THE ORIENT |
DUSKY CHILDREN OF THE FORMOSAN FORESTS |
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| The double-stringed bow is much in use among certain of the aboriginal races dwelling in the thick forests and labyrinthine highlands of French Indo-China, and there are tribes so primitive as still to use poisoned arrows | However scanty their clothing, the hillmen always wear a belt. In it is carried the long, sharp-pointed knife so necessary for cutting wood and betel-nut, for skinning animals, or for beheading enemies. The descriptions of their customs and beliefs would fill a big book, for, as one authority asserts: "Savage life can be seen in all its lights and shades in the primeval mountain forests of Formosa" |