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The ornaments of the men conliil of crowns of va- 

 rious coloured feathers, or a fafh of boars or tygers teeth 

 acrofs one Ihoulder, as a token of their vaJour and a61i- 

 vity. The chiefs of families fometimes wear the Ikin of 

 a tyger, and a filver plate refembling a croiffant, called 

 by them a caracoly ; they alfo frequently have fmall oval 

 bits of filver in the cartilaginous feparation of their nofes, 

 and fometimes a green or yellow coloured flone. All 

 thefe nations live in the foreft> near rivers, and along the 

 fea-coaft, where they are fcattered in fmall villages or 

 hamlets. Their houfes or wigwams, which they call car- 

 -bets, are built as 1 have already defcribed thofe of the ne- 

 groes ; but inftead of being covered with the leaves of the 

 manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans 

 or jointed canes, here called tas, which grow in clufters in 

 all marfhy places: but they moftly ufe troolies, which are 

 leaves that diverge immediately from the root, and are 

 no lefs than twenty or twenty-four feet in length, and 

 from two to three in breadth, and this will for years ef- 

 fedlually exclude all inclemencies of weather. 



Their furniture is very fimple, but fufficient for their 

 wants, confifting of a few hlack earthen pots of their 

 own making ; a few callebalhe'S or gourds; a few bafkets, 

 called pagala\ a ftone to grind, called matta. and another to 

 bake their caffava bread ; a fan to blow the fire ; a wooden 

 ftool oY mulee\ a fieve they call ?nanary\ aprefs tofqueeze 

 the wet caflava, called matappy ; and a cotton hammock 

 or net for them to fleep in, 



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