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Their diet consists mostly of pig and turtle flesh, together with 
various edible roots, Jack fruit, plantains, mangoes, &c. Those in 
Hospital or in the Convalescent House have a regular daily ration of 
curry and rice, properly cooked. They also consume a large amount 
of sugar-cane, which they are very fond of chewing. I have seen a 
comparatively small child chew out the sugar from a yard of cane 
of an inch thick, with the result of visible distension of its stomach 
at the conclusion of the meal. 
The men are good hunters and marksmen with the bow and arrow. 
In spearing turtle they use a barbed arrow with removable head. 
This comes out from the arrow shaft, but is attached by means of a 
strong cord to the boat containing the hunters ; thus the turtles are 
secured alive and stored up in tanks. A similar plan is adopted in 
shooting pigs. They are very skilful at shooting fish under water, 
they seem intuitively to have calculated with great accuracy the 
difference of direction to be allowed from oblique aqueous refraction, 
and, I am told, shoot fish in this manner at a distance of thirty 
yards, with three-pronged barbed arrows. 
Their bows are double curve bows of great strength. The bow 
strings are made by the women, out of the fibrous portion of 
certain jungle sapplings. This is obtained by picking off the outer 
bark and scraping it with a shell, which separates the fibrous 
portion, and the latter is subsequently made into cord by twisting 
between the hands. Their arrows are long and with variously- 
shaped heads, according to the use to which they are applied; some 
are seen in the plate (figs. 2 and 3). I have seen some arrows used 
in war, with such broad heads that they would completely disembowel 
an enemy if striking in the abdomen. They are not apparently 
acquainted with any substance for poisoning their shafts. 
In personal adornment they are very curious, and their decora- 
tions seem, according to our ideas, very grotesque. 
The men, when out hunting, &c., in the jungle wear little or no 
appendage. They paint and wear more ornaments when returned 
and living in their community, and of course most of all in connec- 
tion with any “nautch” or public ceremony. The women are 
always more adorned. They, however, occasionally put on bracelets 
and anklets, consisting of simple bands with a number of curled 
leafy appendages attached thereto. In fig. 4 may be seen cer- 
