These bows are six feet long, made of a light supple wood, and the strings are made of the fibrous bark of a tree greased and twisted.
The arrows are three feet long, formed of the same wood as the bows.

The blades are themselves seven inches of this length, and are flat, like the blade of a dinner-knife brought to a point.

Three short feathers from the peacock's wing are roughly lashed to the other end of the arrow.
The Veddah in person is extremely ugly; short, but sinewy, his long uncombed locks fall to his waist, looking more like a horse's tail than human hair.

He despises money, but is thankful for a knife, a hatchet, or a gaudy-coloured cloth, or brass pot for cooking.
The women are horribly ugly and are almost entirely naked.

They have no matrimonial regulations, and the children are squalid and miserable.
Still these people are perfectly happy, and would prefer their present wandering life to the most luxurious restraint.