These Waters last sometimes a longer, and sometimes a shorter Season.

[Why they do not alwayes sow the best kind of Rice.] Now the Rice they sow is according as they foresee their stock of Water will last.

It will sometimes last them two or three, or four or five Months, more or less; the Rice therefore they chuse to cast into the Ground, is of that sort that may answer the duration of the Water.

For all their Crop would be spoilt if the Water should fail them before their Corn grew ripe.

If they foresee their Water will hold out long, then they sow the best and most profitable Rice, viz.