I Never Saw Such People For Laughter Whenever
Anything Amused Them, Which Is Very Often; They Were A Great Contrast
In This Respect To The Filipinos.
This natural gaiety helps to explain
their many and varied dances, one of which consists in their running
round after each other in a circle.
I felt very much better next morning, and we started off very early,
our numbers being increased by the chief and many of his men, so that
I now found myself escorted by quite an army. I took note round here
of the methods used by the Negritos in climbing tall, thick trees to
get fruit and birds-nests. They had long bamboo poles lashed together,
which run up to one of the highest branches fully one hundred feet from
the ground. They often fastened them to the branch of a smaller tree,
and thence slanting upwards to the top of a tall tree, perhaps as much
as sixty feet and more away from the smaller tree. These Negritos axe
splendid climbers, but it seemed wonderful for even a Negrito to trust
himself on one of these bamboos stretching like a thread from tree
to tree so far from the ground. I shall never forget the scramble we
now had into the deepest gorge of all, and how we followed the bed
of a dried-up stream, which in the rainy season must be a series of
cascades and waterfalls, since we had to scramble all the way over
large slippery boulders covered with ferns and BEGONIAS.
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