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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER IX. 
LABOR, FARMING, MANUFACTURES, TRADES. 
They have no regular business or employment; 
and especially is this true of the men ; for, as a 
rule^ they never labor unless driven to it by neces- 
sity, There is, indeed, little inducement to labor 
in the present state of society. The natural pro- 
ductions of the country are so abundant, and the 
wants of the people — in their estimation — so few, 
that there is nothing to excite to industry and en- 
terprise. 
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 with- 
out, as in the case of clothing. The climate being^ 
warm, and their houses as a general thing hot 
being proof against dampness, they suffer no great 
inconvenience to be without them a large part of 
the year, especially during the dry season. 
