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The art of making their cloth is comprehended under many arts 





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The materials of which they are manufadured are different : in . 



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general the cloths are made from the bark of trees -, the befl fort of 



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cloth is from the bark of the aoutay or morns papyrif era. This plant 

 is very carefully cultivated, in a good and rich foil, which the na- 

 tives take care to manure and prepare for the better growth of thefe' 

 plants, by mixing with it all kinds of fhells j; the ground which 

 they deftine for the nurfery of <^5^/^, is commonly enclofed by deep 



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trenches,, in order to prevent men and animals from hurting the- 

 young trees J in this foil they plant the young flioots of the aouta,, 



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in regular, rows, at, the diftance of about 1 8 inches, . or two feet 



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they lop off the leaves and branches that are fprouting out, which 



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©peration increafes the main fhoot, and invigorates its ffrait growth j 

 as foon^as. the fiplings have attained the fize of an inch diameter, 

 and the heighth of about fix or eight feet, they are drawn up ; the 

 roots and tops are then cut off, and fuch parts of the root as have 

 young fhoots,. are carefully preferved and planted again : of the. 



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ilrait main Ihoot, , the bark is flit, up longitudinally, and put into a, 



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mnning ilream, under a board loaded with ffones; when the water, 

 has rendered the filamentous part of the bark more flexible' dif^- 

 folved the gummous fubflance which joins them,, and foftened the 

 P^te ^^^^^"^^^i^^e^^bflance, then the women fcrape the bark, ia. 



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