Next they are employed in landing the goods of the Burmese kopra-makers, and in carrying the same to their villages, for as no ships can anchor on the north-east coast during the season, everything has to be transported by the natives. The people of M[=u]s carry the things of those traders who own stores in their villages; in like manner the villagers of Malacca go to Sáwi Bay, and carry the goods of those Burmans who dwell amongst them. They are remunerated according to the following scale:-- For carrying a 3-maund bag of rice-- China tobacco. Rice. (_a_) From Hog Point (N.-W. of Sávi Bay) to _Elpanam_ at M[=u]s 2 packets and 2 lbs. (_b_) Kenmai 3 " " 2 " (_c_) Lapáti 4 " " 4 " { Tapoeming } (_d_) { Chokchuácha } 5 " " 4 " { Kenyúaka } (_e_) Tamálu 6 " " 4 " (_f_) Perka 7 " " 4 " (_g_) Malacca 8 " " 4 " It costs a trader about 30 rupees to transport one cartload of goods from M[=u]s to Malacca. When this work is done, the Nicobarese are employed in erecting huts, to serve the traders as bazaars. Each hut is built by contract by one man with the help of friends, and on its completion the owner has to give the contractor 14 to 20 yards of red cloth, a Burmese betel-box and a _dáo_, and besides this, has to supply the men with food until the work is finished. After the hut has been built, the natives proceed to make a fence round a small compound, in order to prevent pigs from destroying the stores of kopra. For this they are remunerated separately. While some are thus engaged, others take passages in such of the trading vessels as go to Kamorta and other islands, in order to assist in husking coconuts and making kopra, work for which they receive one nut in ten. These opportunities are much desired by the natives, since they are at liberty to take home with them any number of Chaura pots, rattans, bamboos, paddles, and canoes; and masters of trading boats are glad to employ the Kar Nicobarese, for the people of the other islands are too indolent to collect and prepare the nuts, but sell them on the trees. While the men are so occupied, the women and children are busy helping the traders to make kopra, and for this service they are fed twice daily, and receive presents at the termination of the work. Careful accounts are kept by the Nicobarese of their transactions in coconuts, by means of a tally-stick (_kenr[=a]ta kuk_, Kar Nicobar), on which all the nuts that pass from them to the traders are registered by various kinds of notches.