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cordiafehejienat which imbibe the milky juice, and foon tinge it 

 of the iinefl crimfon imaginable -, the whole is gently fqueezed 



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Gut, and flrained through the filaments of coco-nuts, and ufed to 

 die cloth with : inftead of the e-tou, fometimes the leaves of the 



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ployed ; or thofe of the 



fohooa or convolvulus brqfilienjis, or even thofe of the e-pooa ox folaniim 

 repandum: the fole juice of the matted, affords a yollow colour -, but 

 the beft yellow die is made of the juice dripping from the peduncles 

 of the hibifcus punB atus f.populneusy or e-meero : the watery Infufioa 

 of the root of the e-nhio, or morinda citrifolia, dies a fine yellow ; 



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another kind is extracted from the tamannoo, or the calophyllum 



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inophyllum : one of the fpurges called ejnrree-ptrree, afi?brds a bay 

 brown colour ; and the foaked bark of the tootooe, or aleiirites tri- 



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iobdy yields a gum or rcfinous fubflance, ufed by- thefe people for 

 varnifiiing their brown cloth (poowhirree.) 



Mats are employed for various purpofes, and are either articles 

 of drefs, or are ufed for carpeting and bedding, or form their fails j 



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thofe for drefs are chiefly worn when they go a fifhing, and in rainy 

 weather. The bark of the poorou, or hlbifcus tiliaceuSf is manu- 

 fadured into mats, named e-poorhoa, which are very ftrong, and look 

 as if they were made of a coarfe flax or hemp ; fome of them are very 

 le, but have always a kind of harfhnefs : the mat called e-wharou 



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