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■pieces of the befl fort of bark are beaten more than the common, 

 which makes the cloth fine and extremely foft,. not much unlike 

 our muflin. During the beating they conftantly fprinkle the fluff 



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with water,, which fland 



them in cups of coco-nut-fhell 



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after this operation the cloth is bleached, and wafhed, to make it 

 whiter and fofter ; fometimes they make of fach foft and fine cloth ,, 



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(called in Taheitee hoboo) feveral large layers,, which they join by 

 a kind of glue,, prepared from the root of the tncca pinnatijida i. thefe 

 layers are again confolidated by beating, again, rubbed, wafhed and 

 foftened, which operation makes it downy, fmooth, and warm^. 

 The bread-fruit tree yields likewife a material for cloth ; the natives 



plant the young fhoots as the mulberry 



the bark is flripped 



off, foaked, fcraped, laid out, and. beaten in the fame manner, and 

 the cloth it affords is fomewhat coarfer, and called too-erroo. 



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tree, called eaoiiwa,, nearly related to the Jicus indica, and another 

 kind, called by vi.sfous afpera, is likewife employed, for making a 



of cloth from its bark, which is always of brown or cin- 

 namon colour; this cloth they call or^, and the way of manu- 



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faduring it is not different from tlie. method defcribed before y as 

 this cloth refifls the water more than any of the other two forts,, it 



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is in high reqnefi:, and chiefly worn 

 after being previoufly perfumed. 



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