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a man supplies the spot with fresh corn as the 

 bullocks tread out the grain from the ears, by 

 being driven round the post. They are always 

 muzzled to prevent their eating the grain. The 

 grain is carried off and put into large hampers 

 made of split bamboos, some of them holding 

 a hundred bushels or more ; the hampers are 

 plastered on the inside with the same composi- 

 tion as is used for the ground ; and over the grain, 

 reed is put, being plastered in the same manner; 

 thus it is kept from one season to another. 



To these places paroquets and wild pigeons 

 resort in large flights, and when they are vacated 

 by the farmers, the She carries commence their 

 harvest. They use two nets, each about twelve 

 feet long, and five wide, which they lay on the 

 ground where the bullocks were linked, and 

 fasten them down lengthwise on one side. On 

 the other side of each net a split bamboo is in- 

 serted into the meshes, and fastened to two 

 others inserted in like manner at each end ; they 

 are then laid on the ground at such a distance 

 from one another, that when they are turned over 

 they meet exactly ; the space between them is 

 strewed with grain ; a line is fixed to each frame, 

 which is first run through a loop or ring in the 



