14-7. Answer to Mr. Crawford's letter. 



I About two centuries ago, the Sulos were thus described : 

 their little houses are covered with mats, the ground is their 

 only seat, the leaves of trees serve them for plates and dishes, 

 the canes (bamboos) for large vessels, and the cocoanuts for 

 drinking cups. » (Pag. 30), Combes. Gatnell, Caneri and Dam- 

 pier. 



« They wear their hair, pluck their beards, and dye their 

 teeth black, precisely like the Malay. Their eyebrows are 

 shaved with a fine moon like arch after the Chinese fashion.* 

 (Pag. 31.) 



< The women of Sulo wear a close short bajar of cotton of 

 various colours with kanchings on the back part of their arm, 

 breeches of fine white cloth, or of flowing silks or kincobs 

 with two sarongs ene over the shoulders, the other to serve a< 

 a petticoat. They tie their hair a la conde on the fore part o! 

 the head, and wear krabows in their ears, rings in their fingers, 



and Chinese shoes in their feet They arch their eyebrows 



with the razor and share the short hair round their forehead 

 their teeth like the males are filed and dyed black. The women 

 do not wear the Malay pinding. » (Pag. 33.) 



* Every chief when he ventures abroad whether by followers, 

 armed with their favorite weapons, the lumbak and creese, 

 with targets of light wood to guard them from assassination, 

 or to execute thtir commands in that way. They live in per- 

 petual distrust of each other ; when man steals man, and the 

 only law is force, such a system of precaution must be necessa- 

 ry. Every visiter is entertained with sweetmeats, cakes, cho- 

 colate of which it is expected he will partake ; this lays their 

 stomack and destroys their appetite, so as to render one meal 

 per day sufficient, t (Pag. 39.) 



« Cloth is measured by the extended arms, .which is one 

 English fathom, the length of the arm from the elbew to the 

 middle finger one covid , and. the breadth of the finger one inch, 

 though the China covid is known he:e. Spanish dollars are in 



