CHAPTER 66
ANCIENT STORES AND BANKS
1. There used to be several kinds of stores where various kinds of property could be stored. There were also many kinds of banks, the most popular one, if it were compared with European banks was the land. Whenever a man or woman wished to acquire a precious possession, he or she strived for the acquisition of land wherein he or she could store every valuable property. Possessions such as tusks, hoes, money and rupees, which had just been introduced into the country, arms and ammunition, and all other precious possessions were stored in the ground by their owners.
2. Other storages were granaries wherein all sorts of food was stored.
3. Stands used to be built in the houses of rich people on which they kept bark cloth, hoes, etc.
There were no obvious storages for precious possessions, which, therefore had to be secured as safely as possible either in the grass or wraped in banana fibres or in any other way found to be safe.