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CHAP, the corner pofts, and the whole is cut and fliaped with thtf 

 bill-hook alone, and tied together by the nebees or fay- 

 tay^ which I think have derived their name from our 

 verb to tie, fince the Englifh had pofleffion of the co- 

 lony. The nebees are a kind of ligneous ropes of all 

 lizes, both as to length and thicknefs, that grow in the 

 woods, and climb up along the trees in all diredtions: 

 they are fo plentiful and wonderfully difperfed, that, 

 like the ligneous cordage of the mangrove, they make 

 the foreft appear like a large fleet at anchor, killing many 

 of the trees by mere compreflion, and entwining them- 

 felves with each other to the thicknefs of a fhip's cable, 

 without any kind of foliage, which gives them fome- 

 times a wonderful appearance, particularly when afcend- 

 ing lofty trunks in a fpiral manner to the top, from 

 which they next hang down to the earth, take root, and 

 re-afcend. Sometimes the thin nebees are fo clofely in- 

 terwoven, that they have the appearance of fifhing nets, 

 and game cannot get through them. Thefe nebees are 

 exceedingly tough, and may be ufed for mooring large 

 velTels to the fliore. Having only to add, that fome of 

 the fpecies are poifonous, efpecially thofe that are flat, 

 grooved, or angular, I fliall proceed to the roofing of the 

 cottage. 



This is done by the green boughs or branches of the 

 fame manicole-tree that made the walls, and in the fol- 

 lowing manner : each bough, which I can compare to 

 nothing fo well as to the lhape of a feather, and which 



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