Thus the girls are told how they may ascertain a man's character by the colour of his heart's blood—though how they are to ascertain this colour without injury to the subject of inquiry is not mentioned. A lustful man's blood is dark red ; a cross, quarrelsome man's is so dark as almost to be black; a lazy man's like elephant's water; a rough-speaking man's like boiled pease: a charitable man's like the flower of the mahah hlayga, a species of bauhinia; while a learned man's heart's blood is beautiful as the ruby.