When any of his people are guilty of theft, he pays down the amount of goods stolen at once, and reimburses himself out of the property of the thief so effectually as to be benefited by the transaction.

The people under him are divided into a number of classes.
There are his councilors, as the highest, who are generally head men of several villages, and the carriers, the lowest free men.

One class above the last obtains the privilege of wearing shoes from the chief by paying for it; another, the soldiers or militia, pay for the privilege of serving, the advantage being that they are not afterward liable to be made carriers.

They are also divided into gentlemen and little gentlemen, and, though quite black, speak of themselves as white men, and of the others, who may not wear shoes, as "blacks".

The men of all these classes trust to their wives for food, and spend most of their time in drinking the palm-toddy.