The Cloth serves them for Dry weather and they can wash and dress it as often as they please, scenting it with the Tommannoo Nuts, which are bitter to the tast but of an agreeable Smell and by infusing them (when pounded) into water and dipping the Cloth into it; the smell will remain for several weeks, and generally till the Cloth wants dressing afresh.

Matting Is No Inconsiderable branch of their manufacture. Of this they make Sails for their Canoes, Bed Mats, Cloathing for Wet Weather, Sashes for Dress and Carpets for Acting their Heiva or Plays upon — Those for Sails, Carpets & Bedding are made from the leaves of the Palm & Palmetto; the former is Calld Moya and the Latter Evanne. Some of which are ten twelve & fourteen fathoms long, and two fathoms wide and are wrought with great regularity, and are Coarse or fine as the Makers fancy being from two to Sixteen parts to an inch — Those for Dress are known by the Name of Ahhoo with the name of the Bark &c of which they are made perfixd, they are made of different sizes, for the different parts of Dress, and from the Bark of the Poorow, Mattde, Roaa Cocoa nut leaves &c. and Some are very fine, and have from twenty to thirty parts to an Inch. They are all made by the Weomen who work them by hand, without the Assistance of any machine except a Muscle shell to split the stuff.

The Weomen also make matt Bags or Baskets, with Black and White, neatly disposed, and of Many different Patterns.

The Wicker Baskets are made by the Men, from a running Vine Calld Eayeeay and are equal In workmanship to those of Europe. Their Platters, Stools, Chests &c are all neatly made and Well Finished & are the more admirable when we consider their Tools, which are no other then Stone Adzes of Different sizes, Shells, Sharks teeth, Bones, Sand to scower, and Fish Skins to polish, and with these tools they Build their Houses, & Canoes their Toil and pains have been much lessend since they have known the Use of Iron then which they esteem nothing most Valuable — they work the Pearl shells into Many forms for Fish hooks, having a different

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