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doodoe is a large tree, with a handsome blossom, and 

 supplies ornaments for the ears and hair, and nuts 

 containing a considerable quantity of oil, which, by- 

 being strung upon sticks, serve the purpose of can- 

 dles. The porou and fowtoo are trees which supply 

 them with fishing-lines, rope, and cord of all sorts. 

 The tree is stripped of the bark while the sap is in 

 full circulation, and dried; a fibrous substance is 

 then procured from it, which is twisted for use; but 

 itjs not strong, and is very perishable. 



The cloth-tree is pre-eminently useful ; and here, 

 as in all places in the South-Seas where it grows, 

 supplies the natives with clothing. The manner 

 in which the cloth is manufactured has been fre- 

 quently described, and needs no repetition. There 

 is, however, a fashion in the beater, some preferring 

 a broad, others a very closely ribbed garment ; for 

 which purpose they have several of these instru- 

 ments with large and small grooves. If the cloth is 

 required to be brown, the inner bark of which the 

 cloth is made is wrapped in banana leaves, and put 

 aside for about four days ; it is then beaten into a 

 thick doughy substance, and again left till ferment- 

 ation is about to take place, when it is taken out, 

 and finally beat into a garment both lengthwise and 

 across. The colour thus produced is of a deep red- 

 dish brown hue. The pieces are generally suffi- 

 ciently large to wrap round the whole body, but 

 they are sometimes divided. 



The toonena is a large tree, from which their 

 houses and canoes are made. It is a hard, heavy, 

 red-coloured wood, and grows on the upper parts of 

 the island. There was formerly a great abundance 

 of this wood, but it is now become so scarce as to 



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