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tensive than for the immediate consumption of the 

 cultivator and his family. The women as well as men 

 work in their fields. The bringing of wood and 

 water for all domestic purposes, cooking, cleaning, 

 arranging all house affairs, belong to the former; 

 and they are also employed in carrying wood, bam- 

 boos, and other things to market on the plains, to ex- 

 change for salt and tobacco. Hence it appears, that 

 the greatest share of labour falls to the women ; and 

 a man is rich in proportion to the number of his 

 wives, who are so many labourers. There are two 

 sorts of soil which the mountaineers cultivate, the 

 one a black earth, which is esteemed the best ; the 

 inferior is called red, is stiff, and of the nature of 

 clay. Where there is earth sufficient for the purpose 

 of cultivation on the sides and tops of hills, the trees, 

 with which these hills are well covered, are cut, 

 leaving pretty large stumps ; and such as cannot be 

 conveniently moved, or are wanted, are burned where 

 they fall, in the places so cleared. Holes are made 

 from three to four inches deep with a piece of hard 

 wood pointed, in the middle of June, or setting in 

 of the rains : in each of these, two grains of Tukalhoy 

 two of Kosarane, two or three of Lahary^ and from 

 five to seven of Nailo, are thrown in, when they are 

 filled with earth. These holes are not made nearer 

 than a cubit and a half; if less space was left, the 

 grain would be too thick, and not so productive. 

 Koppii, Gungareci) Mooto, and KooJama, are scattered 

 in the same field, with Mdssee, which is sometime? 

 scattered, and at others, put into separate smalt 



holes. 



