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CHAPTER XIII. 
RITABEL 31 EN — THEIR EMPLOYMENT EATING 1VAR- DANCES 
* — -M ORALS BOYS- — BA BIES, 
The men Iiave the advantage of the women in 
looks ; they give more time to personal decora- 
tion, and do not toil. They are undoubtedly 
lazy fellows, and seem to work only when in the 
mood. Their only regular task is the bringing 
of the Utah which has dropped into a bamboo 
attached high on the stem of the palm-trees, 
and this is performed by the young men just 
after the morning hairdressing. We have often 
stood in our morning stroll to watch the Tenim- 
ber athlete mount the tall bare stem, climbing 
the slight notches cut in the tree with regular, 
unfaltering step, and singing gaily the while, 
his faultless brown form and waving yellow hair 
showing clearly against the palm’s soft grey in 
the oblique morning sun, till he was lost in the 
shadow of its feathery crown. 
