MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
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but is considered as a debt, that must be repaid before the CHAPTER 
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servant can leave his place. In case of the servant’s death, his 
sons are bound, to pay the debt, or to continue to work with their Ma y 20 > 
father’s master; and, if there be no sons, the master can give the 
daughters away in marriage, and receive the presents that are 
usually given on such occasions, unless these should exceed the 
amount of the debt. In harvest, the daily hire of a man is six 
Seers of Paddy. A woman transplanting rice gets daily £ of a Sul- 
tany Fanam, or about two-pence. The only servant that does work 
in the house of. a farmer is a woman, who comes once a day to 
sweep the house, and for her trouble receives a piece of cloth once 
a year. The women of the family cook, fetch water, and perform 
all other family labour. The servants are both Sudras and Whalliaru ; 
but seven tenths of the whole are of the former cast. 
Six or seven miles from town, the monthly hire of a servant is 
8 Fanams , or about 5 s. 4 d. Farther from the city, the hire is one 
Fanam , and 80 Seers (or a little more than eleven pecks) of grain; 
of which one half must be Ragy , and the remainder of such kind 
as it may be most agreeable to the farmer to spare. 
At different convenient places in every Taluc there are weekly Weekly 
markets, which in good parts of the country may be about two or markets 
three miles from each other. To these the farmers carry their pro- 
duce, and sell it, partly to consumers by retail, and partly by -whole- 
sale to traders. In the early part of the day they endeavour to sell 
their goods by retail, and do not deal with the traders unless they 
be distressed for money. It is not customary for traders to ad- 
vance money on the crops, and to receive the produce when they 
ripen. At all these markets business is carried on by sale ; no barter 
is customary, except among a few poor people, who exchange 
grain for the produce of the kitchen garden. 
On considering the state of agriculture near Seringapatam, many Imperfect 
capital defects will be perceived. Ameliorating succession of crops is ^uUufe ^ 
