In some lights they look brown, but with transmitted light, or when one is near them, crimson prevails.

A yellowish-green is met sometimes in the young leaves, and brown, pink, and orange-red.

The soil is rich, but the grass is only excessively rank in spots; in general it is short.

A kind of trenching of the ground is resorted to; they hoe deep, and draw it well to themselves: this exposes the other earth to the hoe.

The soil is burned too: the grass and weeds are placed in flat heaps, and soil placed over them: the burning is slow, and most of the products of combustion are retained to fatten the field; in this way the people raise large crops.