CHAPTEE IX. 
LABOR, FARMING, MANUFACTURES, TRADES. 
They have no regular business or employ- 
ment, and especially is this true of the men; 
for, as a rule, they never labor unless driven 
to it by necessity. There is, indeed, little 
inducement to labor in the present state of 
society. The natural productions of the 
country are so abundant, and the wants of 
the people {in their estimation) so few, 
that there is nothing to excite industry and 
enterprise. 
If they have no clothing they go without. 
If they are without rice they draw from 
nature, both from water and land, often 
subsisting on that which is scarcely fit for 
animals to eat. If they have no shelter in 
which to lodge, they do without, as in the 
case of clothing. The climate being warm 
and their houses as a general thing not 
being proof against dampness, they suffer 
no great inconvenience to be without them. 
The country being held in common by 
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