From this period[061] therefore we shall describe their situation.
They are summoned at five in the morning to begin their work.

This work may be divided into two kinds, the culture of the fields, and the collection of grass for cattle.

The last is the most laborious and intolerable employment; as the grass can only be collected blade by blade, and is to be fetched frequently twice a day at a considerable distance from the plantation.

In these two occupations they are jointly taken up, with no other intermission than that of taking their subsistence twice, till nine at night.

They then separate for their respective huts, when they gather sticks, prepare their supper, and attend their families.