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are all armed with spears and bows and arrows, which they know 
well how to use effectively. Most people have a private shed for 
their cattle, but in some villages there is a public seriba as well. 
All animals are killed by having their throats cut, except camels, 
which are speared in the neck. Wood alone is used as fuel, the 
dung being used for manure. Animals are never branded or marked, 
but are each known by name. 
Agriculture . — The whole population are agriculturists. Each 
member of a family has a plot of land which they can call their own, 
but notwithstanding this division the land is cultivated by the 
whole family together. After the ground has been cleared it is hoed 
with iron hoes having wooden handles. Manure is sometimes 
mixed with the soil. Sowing is performed at the beginning of the 
rains. The men make holes in the ground for the seed with stakes, 
the women, who carry the seed in small baskets or adansonia fruit- 
shells, drop them in the holes, the children following and covering 
them with earth. A great deal of attention is paid to the growing 
crops. Children watch them to scare away the birds; they are 
carefully weeded, the weeds being collected into heaps and subse- 
quently used as manure. E very one helps at the harvest ; the 
corn is reaped by small knives, and put into baskets which the reapers 
carry with them ; it is carried home in these baskets and stacked 
near the house to dry. When dry it is spread upon the ground 
which has been beaten hard for the purpose, and thrashed and 
winnowed by the women. The men measure the grain and store it 
away in the granaries, which have been previously described. 
Wheat, tobacco, and onions require to be watered, and this is done 
by irrigation. Most of the fields are at some distance from the 
village. If a man wishes to enlarge his possessions he chooses any 
uncultivated ground near ; he cuts down the shrubs, which he makes 
use of to form a seriba round the land, and generally pastures his 
cattle there for the first year. Hedges are not built as a protection 
from wind. The Fors have no idea of leaving the ground fallow or 
of improving it by a rotation of crops. 
Games and Amusements . — One of the most favourite games 
played by people who have horses very much resembles polo, 
and is played as follows : — A flat field is chosen for the purpose, 
and a large square formed by a ridge of earth. At each corner of 
