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The cocoa-nut and bread-fruit trees are fcattcred about, \777- 

 without any order, and feem to give them no trouble, after v . — ^-^^ 

 they have attained a certain height. The fame may be faid 

 of anotlier large tree, which produces great numbers of a 

 large, roundifh, comprefled nut, called eeefee ; and of a 

 fmaller tree, that bears a rounded oval nut, two inches long, 

 with two or three triangular kernels, tough and infipid, 

 called 7nabba, mod frequently planted near their houfes. 



The kappe is, commonly, regularly planted, and in pretty 

 large fpots ; but the maijubaha is interfperfed amongft other 

 things, as the jeejee and yams are ; the laft of which, I have 

 frequently feen, in the interfpaces of the plantain trees, at 

 their common diftance. Sugar-cane is commonly in fmall 

 fpots, crowded clofely together ; and the mulberry, of 

 which the cloth is made, though without order, has fuffi- 

 cient room allowed for it, and is kept very clean. The 

 only other plant, that they cultivate for their manufac- 

 tures, is the pandanus ; which is generally planted in a row, 

 clofe together, at the fides of the other fields ; and they 

 confider it as a thing fo diftincT: in this ilate, that they have 

 a different name for it ; which fliews, that they are very 

 fenfible of the great changes brought about by cultivation. 



It is remarkable, that thefe people, who, in many things, 

 fliew much talle and ingenuity, fliould fliew little of either 

 in building their houfes ; though the defeift is rather in the 

 defign, than in the execution. Thofe of the lower people 

 are poor huts, fcarcely fufficient to defend them from the 

 weather, and very fmall. Thofe of the better fort, are 

 larger and more comfortable ; but not what one might ex- 

 pert. The dimenfions of one of a middling fize, are about 

 thirty feet long, twenty broad, and twelve high. Their 

 houfe is, properly fpeaking, a thatched roof or fhed, fup- 



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