276* RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. [1813. 
of our things were exposed tlie whole day. Thermo- 
meter at noon, 70. 
This day the public shows removed to the next 
district west from us, which afforded us much more 
quiet. 
The women here are the farmers. Even the queen 
digs the ground along with the other females. The 
instrument they use is a kind of pick-axe. They all 
sing while at work, and strike the ground with their 
axes according to time, so that no one gives a stroke 
more than another ; thus they make labour an amuse- 
ment. They seem in many respects to be a cleanly 
people, having observed no filth of any kind lying 
about their houses, nor indeed in any part of the 
town. 
From the best calculation we have been able to 
make, there appear to be about fifteen hundred houses 
in Lattakoo ; of course, allowing five persons to each 
house, which perliaps is a low computation, there must 
be seven thousand five hundred inhabitants. It is re- 
ported that they have more than a thousand places, 
called outposts, where there are people and cattle. 
£d. When at breakfast, Mooshuai, Mamulalla, and 
Leapa, the widow of Mallayabang the late king, came 
into the tent, and procured some tobacco, of which 
they are all immoderately fond. Leapa is mother to 
Mateebe. The shows returned to our square this day. 
