Their common clothing are very much like square thrum'd matts that are made of rope yarns &C^a to lay at the doors or passages into houses to clean one shoes upon, these they tye round their necks _^^{the thrum'd side out} and are generaly large enough to cover the body as low as the knee     they are made _^^{with very little preparation of the_^broad grass plant before mentioned and they always wear the thrum'd side out, besides these thrum'd matts as I call them they have other much finer- clothing made of the same plant after it is bleached and prepar'd in such a manner that it is as white and}

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