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manner as the Scots pafs their nags over the narrow arms of 

 the fea *. 



It is pretended, .that thefe canes are fo difiiked by the cro- 

 codiles, that they never feize on the navigators, as the fliarks 

 in Greenland do on the poor Greenlanders, whom they bite in 

 two, feciired as they feem to be, in their canoes. 



In moft places, the joints are iifed as pitchers to carry water> 

 and fome will contain fnfficient to fupply the family for the 

 whole day. From this ufe it is named the Arundarbor Vafaria. 



At the fiege of Manga/ore^ 'Tippoo Sultan mounted his fpears 

 on light bamboos, a hundred and forty-feven feet long, and 

 made liis defperadoes mount the breaches, and under the fire 

 of his artillery affail the brave ga'rrifon, inflidling diftant and 

 unexpecSled wounds or death t. 



In China, the joints perforated ferve as pipes for conveyance 

 of water, and in the fame country, by macerating them, the 

 Chinefe make their paper, both coarfe'and fine; fplit into len- 

 der lengths, this cane is of much ufe in making mats. In fliort^ 

 its ufes are innumerable. 



They are often made ufe of for frames of houfes, for 

 which, their ready fiflibility, and their lightnefs, peculiarly 

 adapt them. 



They are greatly fearched after, as poles to carry burthens, 

 but particularly for the poles of Palanquins ; for this purpofe 

 they are bent while growing, to give them a proper curvature ; 

 -and when richly carved, as they often are, are fold at a vaft 



* Voy. Hebrides, lad edit. p. 326. Lucan, lib, iv. 131, 



t Wars in Afia, i. 497. 



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