JULY.] RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. 
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The water by which the town is supplied is obtained 
from some holes at the end of a hill, about a mile to 
the westward. Each hole is about a foot in diameter, 
and two feet deep. The river Lattakoo is too distant 
to bring it from thence. From fifty to a hundred 
women are to be found at these litde wells from 
morning to evening. By ten o'clock in the morning, 
all the water that has been collected during the night 
is taken away, so that all who come later must gradu- 
ally obtain it, as it rises from the spring. No person 
having a head ache should approach within a hun- 
dred yards of this well, the tongue-uproar is so great. 
Messrs. R. A. and three of our people went in the 
morning to dig them a proper well. By two P.M. it 
was eight feet square, but owing to a rock, only two 
feet and a half deep. 
