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beings. In the hot months they are all naked 

 with the exception of a small piece of leather 

 or rag hanging from their middle ; but in the 

 cold and rainy season,, most of them have the 

 skin of some animal thrown over their bodies. 

 Their huts are loosely made with greetj 

 'branches of trees, thinly covered with grass, 

 not sufficient to shelter them from any incle- 

 mency of weather. 



The only cattle they keep, are a few goats, 

 and they do not cultivate the land. Their 

 method of manufacturing iron is the most 

 simple that can possibly be imagined. Having 

 cut down wood and burnt it into charcoal, 

 they collect at the bottom of the hills the 

 stones which, as being good judges they know 

 are much impregnated with iron ore, and af- 

 ter every heavy fall of rain are found in such 

 abundance on the surface, that I believe they 

 seldom if ever dig for any. These stones with 

 the charcoal, they carry on bangys* to the 



Bangy is a split bamboo, or other elastic piece of 

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