INDUSTRIES AND NATIVES 



and at the same time put his other arm around the man 

 standing next to him, and thus received two rupees, 

 one in each hand. They were no sooner received than 

 he broke from the line, proclaimed the fact, and with a 

 rupee in each hand danced in front of my tent in great 

 glee. His adeptness made him the hero of the occasion 

 and the envy of his fellows. 



Most of the agricultural work is done by women, 

 and the price of a wife is fifteen sheep or goats, and the 

 number of wives one may have is limited only by the 

 number one is able to pay for. The women have nothing 

 to say about the selection of their husbands, the father 

 or eldest male relative in each case settles that, however 

 much they may have to say later. They load themselves 

 with copper and steel wire, beads and bangles, and 

 seemingly the supreme test of beauty is the extent to 

 which the lobe of the ear and the rim of the ear may be 

 punctured and expanded. For instance, one negro was 

 extremely proud, wearing^ a^small earthen cheese-jar 

 in his expanded ear-lobe. 



