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completed, the liquor is decanted from 

 the fubfiding bread, and drank. It is 

 inebriating, and has fomewhat the tafte 

 of ale, tho' lefs agreeable. I have often 

 yielded to their importunity, and drank 

 it at their houfes, to avoid giving of- 

 fence, tho' I would willingly have dif- 

 penfed with their hofpitality in this par- 

 ticular. — A flat ftone, on which they 

 bake their bread ; and a rough cragged 

 ftone, on which they grate the roots 

 of Caffava for thread : Several (hells of 

 gourds and calabafhes, of different fizes ; 

 fome are fmall, and ferve the purpofe 

 of fpoons ; others are large, and fupply 

 the place of bowls and diihes : A ham- 

 mock for each perfon, either woven or 

 knit, after the manner of net- work, 

 from the threads of cotton, or the 

 firings twifted from the bark of the 

 Samee tree : A hatchet, and two or 

 three knives. But before the Europeans 

 T 4 vifited 



