Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — Where People Live in Trees. [ARTICLE]

Where People Live in Trees.

The delta of the Orinoco Itlver in South America is for a considerable part of the year deep In water. Yet this tract is inhabited by the Wnrau tribe, who And It their only mode of escape from the terrible bites of the mosquito. The Waraus, therefore, make their habitations In the Ita Palm, which loves moisture uud grows abundantly In this delta, connecting several of the trees together with cross-beams and laying planks upon them for the flooring. The natives of the Philippine Islands and Borneo sleep In trees. The ape men of India, the Veddas of Ceylon, and the Bukones of the Andaman Islands also'llve In trees. Some years ago, Dr. Moffat, the great missionary, while In South Africa, saw one tree In which there were no fewer than tweuty colonial huts of a Kattlr tribe. A powerful chief hud deprived them of nil their cattle and weapons. By degrees the lions became so numerous and daring that the slight Kaffir huts were an Insufficient protection during the night, and the half-starved people perforce took to the trees.