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twist them together with their hands, repeating the process until 
the cord is of the required thickness and leugth. In making rope 
a cord is tied between two trees, and others wound round it in a 
spiral manner. 
String is made of various other substances — of the hairs from the 
cow’s tail, of animal skins cut into stripes and twisted (these are 
very strong, and are used for trapping buffaloes); also from the 
tendons of cattle and wild animals ; this kind is made very fine, 
two men being needed to work it. It is used for how strings. 
String is also made from doleh palm leaves. Fishing nets are made 
with fibre strings, which is tied into knots by the hand, forming 
diamond-shaped meshes like our own netting. 
No dye is used in making string, hut it is sometimes of a red 
colour, because made with red fibres. No wax is used in this 
manufacture, hut the string is sometimes rubbed with grease. A 
lump of fat is taken in the hand, and the string drawn rapidly 
through it. This is also done to the how strings and nets, hut not 
to the large ropes. As a rule, men make the ropes, and nets, and 
how strings; hut women make fine twine, and small nets for holding 
gourds, and for forming hags on which to hang up fruit, &c., to dry 
in the sun, or from the rafters of the huts. 
Money .' — A regular system of exchange is carried on in arrows, 
heads, head necklaces, teeth necklaces, brass rings for the neck and 
arm, and bundles of small pieces of iron in flat, round, or oval 
discs. All these different articles are given in exchange for cattle, 
corn, salt, arrows, &c. 
The nearest approach to money, in one sense, is seen in the flat 
round pieces of iron, which are of different sizes from J to 2 feet 
in diameter, and f inch thick. They are much employed in 
exchange. 
This is the form in which they are kept and used as money, hut 
they are intended to he divided into two, heated and made into 
hoes. They are also fashioned into other implements, such as knives, 
arrow heads, &c., and into little hells to haug round the waist for 
ornament, or round wandering cows’ necks. 
Ready-made hoes are not often used in barter ; iron as above 
mentioned is preferred, and is taken to a blacksmith to finish 
according to the owner’s requirements. 
