CANOE AND CAIIP LIFE. H7 
bast become loosoned, until tlic originally bard piece of wood gets soft 
and flexible, and about double its former breadth. Aftisr it has been 
washed, wrung out to remove the sap, and dried in the suu, it has 
the appearance of a coanso woollen stuff of a bright whitish yellow or 
light brown, disclosing two main layers of wavy fibres held together 
by smaller lilamouts. A more easily prepared and better M'orking- 
garnieiit for a tropical climate is hardly to be lound than this, called 
