RAIDING SWIFTS’ NESTS
Next "to raising rubber, gathering nests for Chinese bird’s nest soup is one of Borneo’s chief occupations. The raiding of the swifts’ nests in huge caves by natives is one of the highlights in Martin Johnson’s last and greatest picture, “Borneo,” a Twentieth Century-Fox release. Twice a year the natives go out and raid these nests, returning after a day or two with their plunder. Chinese merchants buy the nests on the basis of their colour and lack of feathers. A white, featherless nest may be worth as high as thirty dollars a pound. The trade brings in about one hundred thousand dollars a year. Narrated by Lowell Thomas with interruptions by “Professor” Lew Lehr and supervised by Truman Talley, “Borneo” was produced by Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson. Lew Lehr and Russell Shields wrote the continuity. /
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 2
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