three times, and the girl's uncle says thrice "Let me receive the Adayalam." The Tandans again exchange betel leaves, and distribute them among the castemen. Then follows a feast, and more betel. The date of the wedding has now to be fixed. They congregate in the middle room once more, and the Tandans sit on the mat. The girl's Tandan shares a bundle of betel leaves with the boy's Tandan, who, taking therefrom four leaves, places two rupees on them, and gives them to the girl's Tandan. The boy's party supplies this money, which is a perquisite of the Tandan. When handing over the leaves and the coins, the boy's Tandan says "On ... (naming a date) ... and ... (the bride and bridegroom), and friends, and four women will come. Then you must give us the girl, and you must prepare the food for that day." The other Tandan replies "If you bring six cloths and forty-two fanams (Rs. 10-8) as kanam, and two fanams for the muchenan (the girl's father's sister's son), the girl will be sent to you." The cloths should be of a kind called enna kacha, each four cubits in length, but they are not now procurable. Kanam is a term used in land tenures, for which there is no precise equivalent in English. It is a kind of mortgage paid by a tenant to a landlord. The former is liable to eviction by the latter, when he obtains better terms for his land from another tenant--a condition of modern growth breeding much mischief and bad blood. But, when a tenant is evicted, he is entitled, according to law, to the value of certain improvements on the land, including eight annas for each tree which he has planted. The kanam is paid by the boy's sister or sisters. His Tandan addresses his brother-in-law or brothers-in-law in the words "On ... (mentioning a date), you must come early in the day, with Rs. 10-8 as kanam," and gives him or them four betel leaves. Those assembled then disperse. The boy's people may not go to the girl's house before the day appointed for the marriage.