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convenient for tlieir work ; they now remove the bark with a certain kind of 

 shells, and, using the less injured part of the trunk for its lower side, they liglit 

 on the other side a fire all along the trunk, excepting its ends, and when they 

 think that there has been enough burning, they extinguish the fire and commence 

 scraping with shells; having made a new fire, they burn again, and thus con- 

 tinue in succession, alternately burning and scraping, until the boat is sufficiently 

 hollowed out."* 



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Fig. 365. — Virginia Indians engaged in boat-making. 

 After De Bry. 



Smith {Captahi John): The General Historie of Virginia, New-England, and 

 the Summer Isles, etc.; London, 1624. — [Indians of Virginia]. "Their fishing is 

 much in Boats. These they make of one tree by burning and scratching away 

 the coales with stones and shels, till they haue made it in forme of a Trough. 

 Some of them are an elne deepe, and fortie or fiftie foote in length, and some 



* [XII. Lintriiim conficiendorum ratio], " Mira est in Virginia cymbas fabricandi ratio : nam cum ferreis 

 instrumentis aut aliis nostris similibus careant, eas tamen parare noriint nostris non minus commodas ad nauigan- 

 dum quo lubet per flumina & ad piscandum. Primum arbore aliqua crassa & alta delecta, pro cymbae quam parare 

 Tolunt magnitudine, ignem circa eius radices summa tellure in ambitu struunt ex arborum musco bene resiccato, 

 & ligni assulis paulatira ignem exeitantes, ne flamma altius ascendat, & arboris longitudinem minuat. Pene adusta 

 & ruinam minante arbore, nouum suscitant ignem, quem flagrare sinunt donee arbor sponte cadat. Adiistis deinde 

 arboris fastigio & ramis, vt truncus iustam longitudinem retineat, tignis transuersis supra furcas positis imponunt, 

 ea altitudine vt commode laborare possint, tunc cortice conchis quibusdam adempto, iiitegriorem trunci partem 

 pro cymbse inferiore parte seruant, in altera parte ignem secundum trunci longitudinem etruunt, prseterquam 

 extremis, quod satis adustiim illis videtur, restincto igne conchis scabunt, & nouo suscitato igne denuo adurunt, 

 atque ita deinceps pergunt, subinde urentes & scabentes. donee cymba necessarium alueum nacta sit." 



