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Occupations. — Htintiog and fishing are the chief out* 
of-door occupations of the men. When at home, they 
employ themselvea in malting canoes, hnikling houses, or 
shaping weapons. Tlie plantations, which lie on the 
uplands, are cultivated chiefly by the women and chil- 
dren, who, during the planting or cropping season, go to 
the plantations in a body, under the protection of two or 
three of the men, leaving home early in the morning 
and returning in the evening. The women also perform 
all the domestic work, carrying wood and water, and 
husking the rice and millet. They also malce earthen 
pots, and weave mats for household use. Natives of 
both sexes and all ages are expert in the management of 
the canoes, and they learn to swim and dive at a very 
early age. War is also an occasional occupation, and is 
carried on in the desultorj^ manner usual with uncivilized 
people, each party retiring to rejoice over its success 
whenever it has succeeded in killing or capturing an 
enemy. Unfortunately, the capture of slaves is some- 
times the chief object of war excursions, and then whole 
villages are sometimes surprised, and the women and 
children crrried away into captivity. 
Food and LnwuHes. — The Dory people subsist chiefly 
on millet, yams, maize, or Indian com, a little rice 
obtained from the traders, fish, pork, and fruit of several 
varieties, including cocoa-nuts, plantains, and papayas. 
Sago is not much used, and salt is considered unneces- 
sary as a condiment. Chewing the sirh or betel-leaf, is 
verj^ generally practised; and when not otherwise em- 
ployed, they are incessantly smoking small segars, made 
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