spot is selected and several deep holes are dug in one end.
Back of them, and leading toward them, is a high tight fence made in a
V. By beating the grass with boughs as they walk toward the trap, the
people drive the grasshoppers before them until they are finally forced
into the pit, from which they are collected by the bushel.

I was told that meat was sometimes salted, dried, and stored away for
future use. The climate seems to be absolutely opposed to such
foresight, and the one time that I saw the process being used, the odors
were such that I beat a hasty retreat and chose to accept, without
proof, the verdict of the natives, that venison thus prepared was
excellent.

Of almost as much importance as food is the use of the betel or areca
nut,[14] which is chewed almost constantly by young and old of both
sexes. The nut is divided into quarters and a piece of _buyo_ leaf[15]
is wrapped about each bit. To this is added a little lime and a pinch of
tobacco, and it is ready for the mouth. The resultant deep red saliva is
distributed indiscriminately on the floor, walls, and furniture where it
leaves a permanent stain. To hold the materials necessary for this
practice brass betel nut boxes, secured from the Moro or of their own
manufacture, as well as plaited grass boxes and pouches are constantly
carried (Plates XVIIa and XLI). The brass boxes generally have three
compartments; the first for nuts, the second for leaves and tobacco, and
the third for lime. Lime is also carried in small bamboo tubes (Fig.
14), in the decoration of which a great deal of time is consumed. The
open end is fitted with a rattan sifter so that the powder is
distributed evenly on the nut and leaf.

[14] _Catechu L_.

[15] _Piper betel L_.

FIG. 14. INCISED LIME AND TOBACCO TUBES.

Aged persons and those whose teeth have been so mutilated that they
cannot chew, make use of an outfit which includes a small mortar and
pestle (Plate XVIIb). Cutting open green betel nuts, the chewer wraps
the pieces in leaves and, after adding a liberal supply of lime, mashes
them in the mortar until all are reduced to a soft mass.

Lime is secured by placing snail shells in a fire, from which they are
taken while hot and dropped into cold water. They can then be crushed
into powder with the fingers.

Although the Bagobo raises a considerable quantity of tobacco he seldom,
if ever, smokes it unless the leaf is furnished him, already prepared,
by an outsi