Men and women and children engage in field labour, but at present many of the men are engaged in spinning buaze[29] and cotton.

The former is made into a coarse sacking-looking stuff, immensely strong, which seems to be worn by the women alone; the men are clad in uncomfortable goatskins.

No wild animals seem to be in the country, and indeed the population is so large they would have very unsettled times of it.

At every turning we meet people, or see their villages; all armed with bows and arrows.

The bows are unusually long: I measured one made of bamboo, and found that along the bowstring it measured six feet four inches.