The industry of the Indians does not arise so much from their ingenuity, as from the fertility of the soil which they cultivate. They plant rice, pepper, the areca tree, millet, ginger, sugar-canes, _magnel_ or saffron, beans, pease, and _mudira_, a kind of corn which they use for feeding horses. From the sesamum, of which they raise also great quantities, they procure an oil, employed either for burning in their lamps, or for anointing their bodies during their lustrations. Prunes, tamarinds, cardamoms, wild cinnamon or _Cassia lignea_, _Cassia fistula_, long pepper, _Ciaca_, _Teka_, _Biti_, _Ayani_, _Mava_, and _Sandal_ wood, grow here without any nursing or care. Of the so called _Nella_, or rice in the shell, there are three kinds, viz. _Virippa_, _Mundaven_, and _Puncia_. The first kind is reaped in September, the second in December or January, and the third in March or April. These three crops, however, are not procured from the same field; and the last, during the summer, is brought forward by strong and often repeated watering. The water is drawn from the rivers in buckets, and conducted to the rice-fields by channels between them. The _Nella_ is reaped in such a manner that the straw is left standing on the ground: it is then threshed; scalded in hot water; spread out on mats, where it is left to dry in the sun; and afterwards preserved in _Patajas_, or granaries, built of _Teka_ wood. Those people who in the course of the year use only a small quantity of _Nella_, hoard it up without scalding it, and subject it to that operation as they consume it. The scalding and pounding, as well as every other preparation of the _Nella_, are left entirely to the women. When it is dried, pounded, and perfectly white, though still raw, it is called _Ciorra_, and in the Samscred language _Annam_ or _Odanam_. The straw, as already mentioned, is left standing on the ground in order that it may rot and serve as manure. If it be not sufficient for that purpose, they make small pits here and there in the ground, fill them with leaves and tender twigs, which they cover with earth; and in this manner prepare whatever quantity of manure may be necessary. As the Indians consider cow-dung to be sacred, and daub it over their houses, it may be readily conceived that they never carry it out to their fields. All the lands, without exception, belong to the king, who sells them at pleasure, or lets them on lease. The _Olà_, or deed, in virtue of which the sovereign disposes of any piece of ground, and puts a person in full and free possession of it, is called _Attipèra_ or _Attiperòla Caranam_. If the _Olà_ relates only to the lease of such a piece of ground, it is named _Pàttòla_. The case is the same in regard to the sale or lease of a palm-garden.