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harvest, some additional laborers must be hired. All the farmers, and 

 their children, even those who are richest, Brahmans excepted, work 

 with their own hands, and only hire so many additional people as are 

 necessary to employ their stock of cattle. A servant's wages are 

 from 6 to 9 jimshiry pagodas a year, together with a blanket and a 

 pair of shoes. The jimshiry pagoda is four dudus worse than that of 

 Ikeri, which is rather less than 1^ per cent. The wages are therefore 

 from £2 7s. lOd. to £3. lis. 9d. Out of this they find everything 

 but the shoes and blanket. Men laborers get daily half a fanam or 

 3:^<^., and women receive one-half of this hire, which is seldom paid 

 in money, but is given in jola at the market price. The man's wages 

 purchase daily about a quarter of bushel. The people here work from 

 eight in the morning until sunset, and in the middle of the day are 

 allowed 24 minutes to rest and eat. The cattle woi'k from eight in 

 the morning until noon. They are then fed for an hour, and work 

 until about 5 o'clock. 



Heriuru (Mysore.) — At Heriuru there are no-slaves. Most of the 

 labor is performed by the families of the tenants ; but a few hire men- 

 servants by the year, and in seed-time and harvest employ women by 

 the week. A man gets from 50 to 70 fanams a year, or from £1 11.9. 

 2^d. to £2 Ss. 8ld. This is paid entirely in money, without addition, 

 except that for himself and family he generally obtains room in his 

 master's house. Women get 1 fanam, or 7^d. a week. Advances to 

 servants are not common, and of course they are entirely free. 



The hours of labor in this country are from eight in the morning 

 until noon, and from 2 o'clock till sunset ; in all, about eight hours. 

 The laborers get up about sunrise; bat an hour is spent in ablutions, 

 prayer, marking their faces with consecrated ashes or clay, and in 

 eating their breakfast. They eat three times a day, their principal 

 meal being at noon. 



Bailurii (Mysore.) — In the Malayar there are no slaves. Most of 

 the labor is carried on by the farmers and their own families. Ser- 

 vants are hired by the year, month, or day. A man's wages, when 

 hired by the year, are annually 3 pagodas, a pair of sandals, a blanket, 

 and daily a meal of ready-dressed rice, worth altogether about 5 

 pagodas, or about £2. He eats another time daily, but this is at his 

 own expense. A servant hired by the month gets half a pagoda, or 

 about 4 shillings, without any addition. The daily hire is one-third 

 of a Canterroy fanam or 2^d. Hired servants work from eight in 

 the morning until six in the afternoon ; but half an hour's intermis- 

 sion is granted to give them time to* eat some ready-prepared 

 victuals. 



CancanhulJy (Mysore). — Most of the cultivation is performed by 

 the hands of the farmers and of their own families. A few hired ser- 

 vants, but no slaves, are employed. A man-servant gets annually of 

 ragi 4 candacas of 200 seers of 72 inches, or nearly 26| bushels, worth 

 at an average 28 fanams, with 12 fanams in money. In all, he 

 receives 40 fanams, or £1 4s. 11^^. The hours of work are from 6^ 

 • in the morning until noon, and from two in the afternoon until sun- 

 set. The number of holidays allowed is very small ; but the servant 

 occasionally gf^ts four or five days to repair his house. At seed-time 



