8o DEL AGO A BAY. 



When the little one thus slung up wants 

 nourishment, he, if old enough, reaches under 

 the mother's arm and pulls the breast to him. 

 Sometimes the woman seats her child astride on 

 one hip, and so suckles it rarely caressing it in 

 any way, but evidently considering the operation 

 a sort of necessary duty that has to be fulfilled. 

 Ihave occasionally seen a man play with or caress 

 his child, but a woman only once. 



When children cry the women jog them up 

 and down most violently by way of a soothing 

 process. They suckle their children long after 

 they can run alone. Many of the babies are jolly 

 little fat-looking shiny things, but, alas ! they 

 generally have such dirty noses ! 



Many of the women have very fine figures, 

 with beautifully shaped arms and small feet; 

 they appear to me finer in comparison than the 

 men. Their upright forms are shown to great 

 advantage whilst carrying heavy pots of water 

 on their heads, which they balance in a wonder- 

 ful way a bunch of leaves being put in the pot 

 to prevent the water from slopping over walk- 



