Show the the pearl hunters of borneo and the adjacent islands have a peculiar superstition sti tion when thoy open abells in search of pearls they take every ninth find whether it bo large or small and put it into a bottle which Is kept corked with a dead mans finger the pearls in the vial are known as seed pearls or breeding pearls and the native Borne ofte firmly believes that they will reproduce their kind for every pearl put into the vial two grains of rice are thrown in for abo pearls to bcd ocd upon some whlter lo 10 borneo believe na hamly in the superstition aa the satires do and almost every hut along the coast has its dead finger bottle with faoro nine to fifty seed pearla and twice that number of rice grains carefully and evenly stowed away among them |