52 TIMEHRI. 
They likewise fish with baskets which they place 
before the Creeks, and with a certain poisonous wood, 
which they throw into the water, by which means the 
fish fall into a swoon and float in multitudes on the 
surface of the water, of this we intend to say more here- 
after. Others occupy themselves with making baskets, 
and plait boxes of small twigs, called Pagales, of 
different shapes and sizes, square, oblong, and round, 
the rims of which they paint red and black ; these are of 
great use to them, to keep and hide their provisions, 
tools, and other things in; some of these baskets are 
doubly worked, lined with Baroulou or Ahouai leaves, 
to prevent water penetrating into them; they are un- 
commonly neat and light. 
Of this sort of basket work they likewise seal a sort 
of sausages, sewing them into bags to squeeze out the 
Cassave. 
They also make a sort of grater of small sharp stench 
which they know how to grind for that purpose, and 
fasten chequerwise on a board two feet long, and eight 
inches broad. 
Of similar stones their tools to carve wood with, and 
even to cut stone, consisted, previous to being made ac- 
quainted with the use of iron. They manufa&ture pots 
and pans, called Canarzs, of different sizes, with figures 
painted on them, in these they keep the liquors. They 
also have a sort of spoons or cups which they call Couds 
of different sizes, which they prepare from the bark or 
shell of the calabash fruit, this they cut in two, varnish 
with much neatness, and previous to its getting ripe by 
tying it, can form it in all sorts of shapes, carving on the 
prettiest figures of flowers and other divers decorations, 
