A Curious Race

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 135, 24 April 1886, Page 3

A Curious Race

_ — ♦- — The Cabas, who inhabit a portion of the ulatfi of Bu»atra, aw a peculiar type of Uia« gravitating between the man cad ithcT awmai. Their special peculiarity w .hjswsa, They are too shy to mix with die other races of the ,sland, and dwell ia Ac recesses of the forests. They «c looked o. as inferiors by the Ma ays, Ztd thought to be little better than fcemate Suok v tk«ir shyness that tkey will merer willingly face a stranger. Their trade with the Malayans is conse. «ue»Uy carried on in a strange manner. The trader announces hw arrival by DeatLz * CMfc and then retires from the .iLe ©ViSatevous. The Kubas apBroach, pmt their forest treasures en the Eouii beat a gong, and retreat. The SaderMtemtand lays his e^"*'" 1 dowa a awntities sufficient, as he thinks, for the pwehase of the goods ©n sale. Then he retires, and the Kubaa re-appear anin aad consider the bargain. And so, *Lr more withdrawals and approaches tad col* beatings, the respective parties «ometo an mndewtanding and carry off independently their barfiajus. The Kubas in their wUd state do not bury their dead The/ lire on snakes, fruits, grubs , and the flesh of any deer or pigs that they can slay. They are skilful spearman, «od throw itene. with marvellous accuracy. They know of no state after death. Im some physical aspects they assimilate closely to the anthropoid apes.