Identifier: jungletrailsjun00whit ( find matches)
Title: Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East
Year: 1905 ( 1900s)
Authors: Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eir babies. Room was made for mein one of the largest and newest appearing housesand every possible attention shown. Particularlythe absence of curiosity on the part of my host andfamily and their consideration and respect for mysolitary position impressed me. It was in strik-ing contrast to experiences elsewhere, in my owncountry as well as in other foreign lands. Theystudiously avoided intruding and allowed nocrowds of wide-eyed and open-mouthed stragglersto stand gaping at me or fingering my belongings.I was not, in other words, a subject of idle curiosityfor either the residents or the native travellers thatwere passing by. I was not on exhibition, as Ihad often been when placed in similar positions inmy wilderness wanderings. Really I was havinga very comfortable time. During the day I ex-plored nearby streams and wandered in the jungletrying to get a look at some of the birds; and atnight I was always abundantly entertained by thedelightful native music, which tuned up after the
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OF KKLAXTAN 143 evening meal had been finished and the peoplegathered at an open shed-like building under somelarge trees. Before I left the kampong there came a feastday with festivities lasting from late in the after-noon until near dawn of the following morning,and comprising almost continuous music—without,by the way, a single change in any of the musicians—and several dances in which both women andmen performed, some of the latter having theirfaces made up grotesquely. One dance engagedthree young girls, whose performance consisted ofgracefully slow movements accompanied by thefamiliar Malayan posturing, in which arms andhands and shoulders figure prominently. Theywere quite as skilled as any I had ever seen, andin addition were more attractively costumed.They wore short little jackets of red and yellow silkfalling just below the breasts, while fastened upontheir sarongs at the waist were the old Malayansilver buckles of exquisite workmanship, now sorare. Some of the men and

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