Note 201 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature
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“11. Then a bucket is made for the purpose of threshing the rest of the rice, and a granary built to keep it in while it remains in the field, and five or six labourers are engaged to reap and thresh it (banting).201 Their hours of working are from 6 to 11.30 A.M., and all the rice they thresh they put into the granary.