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THE 



ARTS harpoons of reed (E 





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ehaj pointed with a hard wood 



Their 



fhaped in the manner of the hearded head of an arrow. 



large feines foopedj are employed in Hioal water only, and are of 



great extent and made of a kind of phafeolus and of a convolvulus 



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Their hooks (Mat toil) are formed of pieces of ill ells ; thofe for 



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matching of fmall fiih afe very neat, fmall, and of one piece; 

 jthofe for iifh of a middle fize, are made of mother of pcarl-flieli, 

 and compofed of two pieces, the fliank is formed of the mofl bright 

 :and gloffy part of the fhell, and the hook is faftened to it by firings 

 paffing through fome holes bored through both pieces, and for the 

 hetter decoying the fifh, they add fome hair, feathers, or tufts of 

 thread to reprefent the fins of fmall fifh 5 this kind of hook they 

 call 'vittee-vittee : the largefl of all have a fhank made of wood or 

 bone covered with a brown mother of pearl-fhell, and have a hook 

 of tortoife-fhell, which often is made of tv/o pieces tied together. 



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The firings for thefe hooks are made of a kind of nettls 

 ^rgenteaj Erooa which holds the flrongefl fifh, ( viz. ) the Bonito 



Peerara fSco?nberpeIamysJ, the Alb 



or Eahai [Scomber 



^hynnm), and the Dolphin or E-ooma (Coryphcena HippiirusJ : 

 for all other purpofes they ufe firings and ropes made of the Emb/joo 

 or Cyperus alatus, the bark of Poorou or Hibifcus tiliaceus, the bark 

 of Mattee or ficus tindoria and the Epeepee or phafeolus amoenus. 



They make ufe of feveral plants and fruits, which when bruifed 



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