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the outer bark, and chew it we]l till the next wand 
is ready ; use soon blackens it. Every tree and fruit 
has its separate name and use in this country. 
The sultan owned three hundred milch cows, yet 
every day there was a difficulty about purchasing 
milk, and we were obliged to boil it that it might 
keep, for fear we should have none the following day. 
This practice the natives objected to, saying, "The cows 
will stop their milk if you do so." The calves drank 
most of it. Butter, except when rancid, we could not 
procure, the people using it for smearing their persons. 
They seldom had butcher-meat for their dinners, pre- 
ferring to economise their cattle ; and on my informing 
them that a cow lay in a neighbouring jungle with its 
leg broken, and ought to be cared for, a party, headed 
by the sultan's son, went at night, killed the animal, and 
brought over the carcass. It had belonged to another 
village. They kill all their animals with bludgeons, 
hunting them down through lanes and amongst houses. 
The goat's head is twisted ; it never is killed as is done 
in this country, because it is thought the skin would 
thereby be injured for wear. The dogs are no better 
than the pariahs of India, and quite as prolific ; a 
favourite, which was fed by me daily, had twelve pups, 
two of which were drowned. Pet pigeons, of the 
ordinary dovecot sort, flew in circles round the village, 
or would evince alarm at the sight of a large bird. 
We met with no new wild animals here, and killed 
no lions. The natives used to trap game by means of 
nooses and pitfalls, and the lads of several villages 
would assemble with dogs, horns, and spears, to have 
a battue of the different forests — partridges, hares, 
coneys, and sometimes antelopes, being the result. In 
