198 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
The indolence of the men is so great, that if a man gets 
a few beads of different colours, he stops at home (while 
his wife is in the field picking up wood, &c.), to string 
them, placing the different colours in every kind of way 
till they suit his fancy. 
They have songs on various subjects, love, war, palm 
wine, &c. 
They have no other arms except knives and a few mus- 
quets ; no shot, but small rounded stones : a piece of quartz 
makes a good flint. They take fish by poisoning them 
with a species of narcotic herb. They make good lines with 
grass. 
They amuse themselves with a game which is played ona 
piece of board, having twenty-eight circular hollows on its 
surface ; but I could not learn the principles of the game. 
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