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A male slave is allowed daily 1 i liany of rice, or three-fourths of 

 the allowance of a hired servant ; a woman receives 1 hany. The man 

 gets I ^ rupee's worth of cloth and 2 rupees in cash ; the woman is 

 allowed only the cloth. They receive also a trifling allowance of oil, 

 salt, and other seasonings. A small allowance is given to children 

 and old people. When a slave wishes to marry, he receives 5 pago- 

 das (2 guineas) to defray the expense. The wife works with the 

 husband's master. On the husband's death, if the wife was a slave, 

 all the children belong to her mother's master; but, if she was for- 

 merly free, she and all her children belong to her husband's master. 

 A good slave sells for 1 pagodas, or about 4 guineas. If he-has a 

 wife who was formerly free and two or three children, the value is 

 doubled. The slave may be hired out, and the renter both exacts his 

 labor and finds him subsistence. Slaves are also mortgaged ; but 

 the mortgagor is not obliged to supply the place of a slave that dies, 

 and in case of accidents the debt becomes extinguished, which is an 

 excellent regulation. Free men of low caste, if they are in debt or 

 trouble, sometimes sell their sisters' children, who are their heirs. 

 They have no authority over their own children who belong to their 

 maternal uncles. 



Honavar, in Ganara. — In the farms of the Brahmans most of the 

 labor is performed by slaves. These people get daily 1^ hany of rice ; 

 a woman receives 1 hany. Each gets yearly 2^ rupees' worth of cloth, 

 and they are allowed time to build a hut for themselves in the cocoa- 

 nut garden. They have no other allowance, and out of this pittance 

 must support their infants and aged people. The woman's share is 

 nearly 15 bushels a year, worth rather less than 14^ rupees ; to this if 

 we add her allowance for cloths, she gets 16f. rupees a year, equal to 

 £1 16s. S^d. The man's allowance is 22^ bushels, or 23f rupees, or 

 £2 3s. O^d. A male free servant, hired by the day, gets 2 hanies of 

 rice ; both work from seven in the morning until five in the evening ; 

 but at noon they are allowed half-an-hour to eat some victuals that 

 are dressed in the family as part of their allowance, and every caste 

 can eat the food which a Brahman has prepared. 



Sersi, North Canara. — In this country a few slaves are kept; but 

 most of the labor, even in the grounds of the Brahmans, is performed 

 by the proprietors, or hired servants. The Haiga Brahmans toil on 

 their own ground at every kind of labor, but they never work for hire. 

 The hired servants seldom receive any money in advance, and conse- 

 quently at the end of the year are free to go away. No warning is 

 necessary, either on the part of the master or of the servants. These 

 eat three times a day in their master's house, and get annually one 

 blanket, one handkerchief, and in money 6 pagodas, or 24 rupees, or 

 £2 8s. 4<\d. Their wives are hired by the day and get 1| seers of 

 rough rice and 3 dudus, of which 49^ are equal to 1 rupee. In so 

 poor a country these wages are very high. A male slave gets daily 2 

 pucka seers of rough rice, with annually one blanket, one handker- 

 chief, a piece of cotton cloth, and some oil, tamarinds, and capsicum. 

 He gets no money, except at marriages ; but these cost 1 6 pagodas, 

 or £6 8s. W^d.y for, the woman must be purchased. She and all her 

 children of course become the property of her husband's master. The 

 woman-slave gets daily If seers of rough rice, a blanket and annually 



