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APPENDIX A. USEFUL INFORMATION. 



To make a bag and frame with opening of four feet by two feet. 



Sufficient strips of clotli are taken, each fourteen feet long, sewn together by their 

 long edges to make a piece fourteen feet by six feet. The two ends are then brought 

 together and the sides sewn up. This makes a flat bag, to which strong cloth tags are 

 sewn, the first at one seam, the next two feet from that, the third four feet from the 

 second, the fourth two feet from the third and four feet from the first. Bamboos of 

 two feet length are fixed between the two pairs of tags two feet apart and the bag is 

 ready {see Pig. A). , . 



Fig. a. 

 Bag with bamboos ready for use. 



The frame is made of four pieces of bamboo (a), each four feet three inches long, 

 laid in a square, the ends of two bamboos on the ends of the other two. Two cross- 

 pieces (J) of split bamboos, each five feet eight inches long, are laid diagonally across 



d 



Fig. B. 



Bamboo frame. 



the square. Two pieces of bamboo, each two feet three inches long (c), are placed 

 upright at the corners of one side, and two split bamboos (d), each four feet eight inches 

 long, are placed from the top of these uprights to the nearest corner. A cross bar (e) four 

 feet three inches long is then placed to unite the top of the two uprights {see Pig. B). 



