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and bark, they seein never to have made these their settled 

 abodes. On the contrary, perpetual change of place within their 

 hunting grounds has been ever the rule.* 



Influence of their mode of life on their Psychical Condition. — 

 Hence their social intercourse is essentially limited to their next 

 of kin, whose number is often very small, consisting of only four 

 or five persons, and all stimulant to higher acquisitions and 

 enjoyments and need for sustained mental effort is, therefore, 

 wanting. 



Their Peaceable Character. — In character they are peaceable 

 among themselves, and toward strangers so long as they are 

 unmolested. They respect the rights of property, and are true 

 and truth-loving. 



Dress and ornaments.— -Both' sexes go almost naked. In 

 former times they wore pieces of bark from the riti tree (a 

 species of Anticaris) ; which were later replaced by little bits of 

 cloth held round the body by a string. The women wore round 

 iron pegs stuck through their ears. Mr. Hartshorne, however, 

 saw ornaments worn in the ears by both sexes, generally pearls, 

 or, what seemed peculiarly admired, eiupty cartridge boxes. 1 

 Evidently these are quite modern innovations. 



Marriage relations . — It is a custom witlx them to marry 

 with a younger sister — a practice in use among the royal families 

 of the Sinhalese from the time of Wijeya. The only marriage 

 ceremony consists in the Suitor's bringing food for the' 

 parents. 



Emotional expression. — There seems to be no particular 

 depth of feeling among them. All the descriptions indicate 

 rather a certain morose indolence. Whilst they can help it 

 they not only do not laugh themselves, but they despise those 

 who do. Mr. Hartshorne says of them that they are incapable 

 of laughing. This, if it be true, is a peculiarity which, so far 

 as the author knows, has not been told of any other race of 

 people, and has only appeared among certain idiots. t 



* [And a necessity of their life, as hunters depending on game for 

 their subsistence. — T. B.'] 



f [It seems impossible to deny the existence of emotions, and of 

 the outward physical expression of these, to any vertebrated animals at 



