clnd other Animals. 
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trary to their religion. Their ordinary dress is a handker- 
chief, about the head, and a large cloth folded about the loins, 
and reaching below the knee, with the addition in cold weather 
of another cloth, which is thrown over the shoulders, and wrap- 
ped about the body. Their dwellings are comfortable cottages. 
Their occupations chiefly agricultural pursuits. As they are 
stouter than the lowlanders, so are they more active, and, as it 
appears to me, more acute and intelligent. 
All the priests whose temperatures I tried, I should observe, 
were priests of Boodho, who dress and live in a manner peculiar 
to themselves. Their dress consists of yellow robes, which, 
thrown over the left shoulder, and girded about the loins, fall 
in graceful drapery to the feet, covering every part, with the 
exception of the neck, right arm and shoulder. They wear no- 
thing on their head, which, as well as the eye-brows, and the 
hairy parts of the face, is carefully shaved and kept bare. They 
profess celibacy, lead an indolent quiet life, devoted chiefly to 
religious duties and literary pursuits (such as they are), and 
subsist almost entirely on vegetable food. 
At Kandy, on the 12th of September last year, I had an op- 
portunity, which rarely occurs, of ascertaining the temperature 
of three Yaidas. The temperature of the air at the time was 
about 78°: 
r? 
No. 
Age. 
Temp under Tongue. 
Temp, in 
1 . 
60 
98° 
95° 
2. 
30 
98 
96 
3. 
35 
98.5 
96 
The ages of these men Pwas obliged to guess, for they them- 
selves could not inform me. They belonged to a large party 
which had come to Kandy, with a tribute of dried deer’s flesh 
ifed wild honey. They were quite naked, with the exception 
of the partes naturales , which were concealed by a scrap of 
cloth. The hair of their head and beard was long and matted, 
and had never been cut or combed. Their eyes were lively, 
wild, and restless. They were welkunade, and muscular, but 
of a spare habit ; and in person they chiefly differed from the 
Kandians in the slightness of their limbs, the wildness of their 
looks, and their savage appearance. According to their own 
account of themselves, they came from the neighbourhood of 
