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sometimes as large as a conch. They are first broken into numerous^ 
pieces, then chipped roimd, the size of a sleeve button, and after- 
wards bored with a bow and iron style fixed in a piece of wood. 
Lastly they are strung, and extended in rows on a log of wood, 
and rubbed with a soft and bluish gray stone and water, until they 
become perfectly round. 
Their pine apple thread is very strong, and is made from the 
fineness of a hair to the thickness of whip cord, it bleaches to a 
beautiful whiteness, and would answer for sewing any strong 
material, but, when muslin is stitched with it, it is Hable to be cut 
from the harshness. The women frequently join their cloths, and 
ornament their handkerchiefs with a zigzag pattern, worked with 
unravelled silks of different colours. The fetish case is a specimen 
of their needle work, in the manner of chain stitch. 
