[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 ingenious:  for, except Iron-work, all other things they have need of, they make and do themselves:  insomuch that they all build their own houses.  They are crafty and treacherous, not to be trusted upon any protestations:  for their manner of speaking is very smooth and courteous, insomuch that they who are unacquainted with their dispositions and manners, may easily be deceived by them.  For they make no account nor conscience of lying, neither is it any shame or disgrace to them, if they be catched in telling lyes:  it is so customary.  They are very vigilant and wakeful, sufficed with very little sleep:  very hardy both for diet and weather, very proud and self conceited.