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The fiHiing boats are not unlike thofe intended for 



voyages 



only the whole apparatus is meaner, afid the hut is lefs elegant, if 

 any fliould' happen to be fixed on the boat. This account wilL 



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SGIE>JCiLS. 



that 



of thefe 



lies 



are 



defi 



the 



knowledge and pradice of mechanical artSy and that they carefully 



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preferve this knowledge, by early inftruding their, young people 

 in all that belongs to their food, raiment, and habitations. If we. 

 confider that a flone adze, a chilTel of the fame materials, or of 

 bone, and a piece of rough coral rock,, together with a faw made. 



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from a part of the fling- ray's fkin faftened round a piece of v/ood, 

 are all the inilruments to affifl them in the ftrud:ure of their houfes 



d boats, we mufl 



nly give ampl 



teflimony 



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nuity. Their mechanical genius I particularly admired, having an 



canoe 



opportunity of feeing one day a man bufy in fewing a large 

 ogether : he employed a flick with a forked branch for the purpofe 



g more powerfully together; 



one of thefe 



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amazing pur 



of drawing the ftrin 



branches he fixed againil the lowermofl plank, and to the 



had faflened the firing or rope, which gave him 



chafe, and as foon as the firing or rope was flretched to its 



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an affiflant flruck a peg into the hole through which the flrin 

 palled, to prevent its giving way again. Their methods of fifhing 

 and the feveral implements ufed for that purpofe, afford many in- 



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fiances of their 



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and 



of obfervation 



They 



make 



harpoons 



