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To give them needles, however, was not 
fufBcient; it was neceffary to teach them alfo 
to ufe them. I rendered them that fervice 
likewife ; and they foon became fo expert as 
to join together tolerably well two pieces of 
{kin. For this operation, they employed a 
fmall thread of gut made in the horde ; and 
the proc^fs I taught them appeared more ex- 
peditious, ftronger, and neater, than that ufed 
in fuch cafes by the favages, which confifts in 
boring the fkin with a fpike or fharp-pointed 
bone, and putting the thread through the 
•holes. 
Since I returned from my travels, I have 
never feen a woman few without thinking of 
my Kabobiquas ; but, on maturer refiedion, I 
am forry that I made them acquainted with an 
art which, as they will not have it long in their 
power to praQife it, muft be a fource to them' 
only of regret. 
When, during my firft journey, I taught the 
CafFres to form a pair of forge- bellows, that 
which I made for them would at leaft ferve as 
a model, and they were in poffeffion of every 
thing neceffary to enable them to conftriid; 
others. But the cafe was not the fame with 
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