Show binds of money ANY year ago some tribes of the diaks 0 borneo obtained a considerable quantity of bronze cannon parts it is supposed that they took them as prizes in fights with white men of past generations and that being ignorant of the use of firearms they ruined them so that now the trophies are of no use as cannon but they have remained immensely valuable to the dyak individuals who arc lucky enough to own one or more for they are the leading substitutes for money and the man with a piece of bronze cannon is a great personage and can buy pretty nearly anything that he likes from a canoe to a slave in assam is a tribe whose money consists of skulls tiger skulls represent the most valuable money monkey skulls come next in value buffalo skulls follow one of the chiefs of these people is known wide and far as a native millionaire owing to his enormous wealth in the queer skull money he is said to possess three hundred tiger skulls alone like most millionaires the world over he know what to do with his wealth for the are simple persons and there any object in the whole country that is worth three hundred tiger skulls still the rich chief is living in luxury he can buy all the inive giaves food and hut that he wants and he is much feared in tome of the south sea islands the favorite coins are made from sharks teeth there too are certain shrewd natives who have far more than their share and they lead lives of impudent but glorious case sc rene in the knowledge that they can put their hands into not their pocket but their grass bags and pull out enough shark tooth money to make the eyes of lesser persons pop from their heads |