ords to blows, and one of them shot the other. At
which more of them met and fell to skirmishing so briskly with their
Bows and Arrows, that twenty or thirty were left dead upon the spot.

[Curious in their Arrows.] They are so curious of their Arrows
that no Smith can please them; The King once to gratifie them for
a great Present they brought him, gave all of them of his best made
Arrow-blades: which nevertheless would not please their humour. For
they went all of them to a Rock by a River and ground them into another
form. The Arrows they use are of a different fashion from all other,
and the Chingulays will not use them.

[Now they preserve their flesh.] They have a peculiar way by themselves
of preserving Flesh. They cut a hollow Tree and put honey in it,
and then fill it up with flesh, and stop it up with clay. Which lyes
for a reserve to eat in time of want.

[How they take Elephants.] It has usually been told me that their
way of catching Elephants is, that when the Elephant lyes asleep they
strike their ax into the sole of his foot, and so laming him he is in
their power to take him. But I take this for a fable, because I know
the sole of the Elephants foot is so hard, that no ax can pierce it
at a blow; and he is so wakeful that they can have no opportunity to
do it.

[The dowries they give. Their disposition.] For portions with their
Daughters in marriage they give hunting Dogs. They are reported
to be courteous. Some of the Chingulays in discontent will leave
their houses and friends, and go and live among them, where they are
civilly entertained. The tamer sort of them, as hath been said, will
sometimes appear, and hold some kind of trade with the tame Inabitants,
but the wilder called Ramba-Vaddahs never shew themselves.

[A description of a Chingulay.] But to come to the civilized
Inhabitants, whom I am chiefly to treat of. They are a people proper
and very well favoured, beyond all people that I have seen in India,
wearing a cloth about their Loyns, and a doublet after the English
fashion, with little skirts buttoned at the wrists, and gathered at the
shoulders like a shirt, on their heads a red Tunnis Cap, or if they
have none, another Cap with flaps of the fashion of their Countrey,
described in the next Chapter, with a handsom short hanger by their
side, and a knife sticking in their bosom on the right side.

[Their disposition.] They are very active and nimble in their Limbs:
and very ingeniou