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bullocks are linked,, according to the opulence 

 of the cultivator; 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 composition as is used for the 

 ground ; and over the grain 3 reed is put,, being 

 plastered in the same manner, thus it is kept 

 from one season to another. 



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To these places paroquets and wild pigeons 

 resort in large flights,, and when they are va- 

 cated by the farmers, the Shecarries com- 

 mence 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 inserted into the meshes and 

 fastened to two others inserted in like manner 



