174  Mr.  miller’s  Account  of 
always  go  armed7  with  fix  or  eight  lances,  made  of  the 
wood  of  the  cabbage-tree,  which  is  extremely  hard ; they 
are  about  fix  feet  long,  and  topped  with  the  large  bones 
of  fifh  fharpened  and  barbed,  or  with  a piece  of  bamboo 
hardened  in  the  fire,  very  fharp-pointed,  and  its  concave 
part  armed  with  the  jaw  bones  and  teeth  of  fifh,  fo  that 
it  would  be  almoft  impoffible  to  extract  them  from  a 
wound.  They  have  no  iron  or  other  metal  that  I could 
lee,  yet  they  build  very  neat  canoes;  they  are  formed  of 
two  thin  boards  fewed  together,  and  the  feam  filled  with 
a refinous  fubltance.  They  are  about  ten  feet  long,  and 
about  a foot  broad,  and  have  an  outrigger  on  each  fide, 
to  prevent  their  over-fetting.  They  fplit  trees  into  boards 
with  Hone  wedges. 
Their  houfes  are  circular,  fupported  on  ten  or  twelve 
iron-wood  flicks  about  fix  feet  long:  they  are  neatly 
floored  with  plank,  and  the  roof  rifes  immediately  from 
the  floor  in  a conical  form,  fo  as  to  refemble  a ftraw  bee- 
hive; their  diameter  is  not  above  eight  feet. 
Thefe  people  have  no  rice,  fowls,  or  cattle,  of  any 
kind : they  feem  to  live  upon  cocoa-nuts,  fweet  potatoes, 
and  fugar-canes.  They  catch  fifh,  and  dry  them  in  the 
fmoke;  thefe  fhh  they  either  ftrike  with  their  lances,  or 
catch  in  a drawing  net,  of  which  they  make  very  neat 
ones. 
they 
