The furnishing of the house would be an easy matter, for bedsteads, chairs, brooms, baskets, cords, fans, bottles, mats, and hoes can be made of bamboo with the greatest facility. The water-tight joints of the stems form admirable water-vessels, and it would be easy to bring the water to the very door by a gently sloping aqueduct of pieces of bamboo split down the middle and supported at intervals on cross-pieces arranged like the letter X. The jars made from the joints could be utilized not only for holding water, but even for boiling it. Mr. Wallace tells us that rice, fish, and vegetables can be boiled in them to perfection. The young shoots of the bamboo as they first spring from the ground are said to be a delicious vegetable, “quite equal to artichokes.” That fish may be readily caught by the agency of the bamboo is shown by the many specimens of ingenious fish-traps exhibited in the museum at Kew. If we suppose our adventurer to take a thin stem of bamboo, and cut off the end obliquely just above a joint so as to leave a sharp edge, he would be provided with a hard-pointed and very efficient spear. In the same way he could supply himself with daggers and arrows; while from the more elastic species he could make himself a bow, using a thin strip of the outer rind for a bow-string. The lowest internode of Arthrosylidium Schomburgkii, which sometimes attains the extraordinary length of sixteen feet, far surpassing the length of the joints in all other bamboos (says General Munro), furnishes the “Sarbican” or blow-pipe through which poisoned arrows are blown by the natives of Guiana. In the island of Celebes the only article of dress worn by the natives is a body-cloth called Kian Pakkian, made of bamboo split into fine shreds, which are passed between the teeth and bitten until they are soft, when they are woven.