I can't see any evidence that they have the wheel. They have draft
animals; when we were coming down, I saw a few of them pulling pole
travoises. I'd say they've been farming for a long time. They have
quite a diversity of crops, and I suspect that they have some idea
of crop-rotation. I'm amazed at their musical instruments; they seem
to have put more skill into making them than anything else. I'm
going to take a jeep, while they're all in the village, and have
a look around the fields, now."
Charley Loughran went along for specimens, and, for the ride,
Lillian Ransby. Most of his guesses, he found, had been correct.
He found a number of pole travoises, from which the animals had
been unhitched in the first panic when the landing craft had been
coming down. Some of them had big baskets permanently attached.
There were drag-marks everywhere in the soft ground, but not a
single wheel track. He found one plow, cunningly put together with
wooden pegs and rawhide lashings; the point was stone, and it
would only score a narrow groove, not a proper furrow.
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