Nevertheless, when I handle the pay, they are as prime gods, as ever were turned out in Maramma." "You must make a very great variety," said Babbalanja.
"All sorts, all sorts." "And from the same material, I presume." "Ay, ay, one grove supplies them all.

And, on an average, each tree stands us in full fifty idols.

Then, we often take second-hand images in part pay for new ones.

These we work over again into new patterns; touching up their eyes and ears; resetting their noses; and more especially new-footing their legs, where they always decay first." Under sanction of the Pontiff, Hevaneva, in addition to his large commerce in idols, also carried on the highly lucrative business of canoe-building; the profits whereof, undivided, he dropped into his private exchequer.

But Mohi averred, that the Pontiff often charged him with neglecting his images, for his canoes.