3. A number of those latter were put up so as to form a curved line, which was closed by a line of men, shouting and making noise and thus driving the game. The boars were driven on the line of nets. Charging blindly, they usually did not see those and ran right into them. The net was stuck up strongly enough, not to fall down, when first struck by the pig. But when this latter struggled to release itself the net collapsed and entangled the animal, which was immediately speared by the men standing near by. Should the pig for some reason turn upon a man, the above mentioned trap, *Kons*, was used. It consisted of a bent, pear-shaped frame of strong cane. To this was attached a loose setting with very large meshes, made of thin strong rope. The *Kons* was held by the man against the charging bear, and this ran its muzzle and head right into one of the meshes. The man was able to wrestle with the animal for some time, and others came soon to his rescue, spearing the pig.

The wallaby hunt is similar to the pig hunt, with the exception that the nets are not joined to each other. There is a space of about one net's length left between every two nets. In these spaces stand the hunters. The reason for this is that there is no danger of the wallaby charging through those open-ings, as it is too much afraid of the men, whom a bear would not heed. And the leaving of spaces between the nets allows to stretch them out into a much

As a matter of fact, in olden days they used to do all these. But I do not think that piracy and robbery was ever an important factor in the economic life of the Mailu community, and at present they have become absolutely harmless. Philistines under the pressure of law and the influence of religion. Their own economic activities on the mainland (sago making and hunting) have been mentioned before. There remains to be said a few words about their trading.

By their excellent craft, good training in seamanship and by their eminently suitable position, the Mailu islanders were exceptionally well adapted to become a great trading factor on the S. Coast. They could leave their village without approaching any hostile settlement, and they had no rivals equalling them in seamanship anywhere within their sailing area. In this they seem to have been better off than the trading communities of the Eastern end of the archipelago (Milne Bay, Engineer Group, and Louisades) which must often have met with disaster from hostile tribes on their trading expeditions.

1) Comp. C.b. Seligman, op. cit. Chap. XLI. and XLII.

The Mailu had a clear coast from *Suan* Island on the East, where their crab-claw boats met the oval-shaped *Nagas* (or *Amuiwara* as they are called in that district) of the Massim, to *Aroma* in the west, where the native traders