e large dip-nets
suspended from bamboo poles by cords, which allow them to be drawn up when
a passing school of fish is observed by a man perched above.

On another table are models of the fishing-weirs and traps made of poles
which must be forty feet long in the originals, and are driven closely
alongside each other so as to enclose and detain the fish, which may enter
at the funnel-shaped mouth, whose divergent sides are presented up stream.
On the bamboo piles are the floors supporting the palm-leaf shelters of
the fishing family, and upon the various parts of the structure lie the
spears, rods and nets by which the fish are withdrawn from the inner pond,
which it is so easy to enter and so hard to escape from. Various forms of
weirs are shown, and a multitude of fish-baskets, whose conical entrances
obligingly expand to the curious fish, but only present points to him when
he seeks to return. Bamboo and ratan, whole or split, afford the materials
for all these baskets and cages.

Other tables have the land-structures, from the elaborately-carved wooden
bungalow with tiled roof of the residency of Japara in Java to the bamboo
hut with palm-leaf sides and roofs of the maritime Dyaks of Borneo. Here
we have a bazaar of Banda, and there a hut of the indigenes of Buitzenzorg
in the interior of the fertile island of Java. Among the rudest houses
shown are those of Celebes, that curious island, larger than Britain,
which seems to rival the sea-monster, with its arms sprawling upon the
map. One house on stilts is fitted up with a complete equipment of musical
instruments, the wooden and brass harmonicons with bars or inverted pans
resting upon strings and beaten with mallets. Here also is a
weighing-machine for sugar products, the floor resting upon the shorter
beam of a lever, while the long arm extends far out of doors.
Rice-granaries elevated on posts above the predatory vermin are shown in
various forms, and are set in water-holes to guard against the still more
obnoxious ants, which are not content with the grain, but eat house and
all.

Another table has implements of agriculture--ploughs, harrows, rakes,
carts, sleds, all as innocent of metal as the oxen which draw the various
instruments; wheels for irrigation made of bamboo, both frame and buckets;
various cutting, weeding and grubbing implements, made by a sort of rude
Catalan process from the native iron ore. The plough is a little better
than that of Egypt of