Up a Tree.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 30, 3 July 1885, Page 2

Up a Tree.

There are three distinct races of men wild ; li^e m trees. These are Indians m South America, who inhabit the borders of the Orinoco, Tticuya, and Madeira rivers ; the Veddas of Oeylon, and the KraoMoniek of Laos, -a dependency :of Siam. Karo-Moniek, means manmonkey, Laos is a part of the world which has - never : been thoroughly: explored, and but .comparatively'-.little-is known, about it by geographers and scientists. It contains from 800 to 1,000 square miles, and lies betwoen the fifteenth and^wentieth degrees of north la titude, north of Siam, east of the Mebam-Khoug, west of Annam, and about 400 miles .south west of Tonquin, The reason why Laos has not been .thoroughly explored is because alniost evevyoue who has attempted it has died of malarial fever. That part of the country m which the Karo live is very swampy, is in-^ habited only by the men who live m the treeai and by elephants and snakes. The people Jive m jtrees to escape the snakes an<] the wet. ground. ■■ They weave the branches of two trees io^thfplliwii'^iiit^'^^liili^nk - In climbing trees they use t^oir toes , as a-iribnkey does. They do nut grasp the trees with their legs as we do. They live on dried wild riot% an 1 the rind of a green ' cocoaivut. Their only weapoa is a club.