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above, to the top of each pole. But clumfy and inconvenient 
as this apparatus is, they make good way before the wind, 
and are fleered by two men who fit in the ftern, with each a 
paddle in his hand for that purpofe. 
Having faid thus much of their workmanfhip, I fhall now 
give fome account of their tools; they have adzes, axes, and 
chi fiels, which ferve them alfo as augers for the boring of 
holes : as they have no metal, their adzes and axes are made 
of a hard black ftone, or of a green talc, which is not only hard 
but tough ; and their chiffels of human bone, or fmall frag- 
ments of jafpar, which they chip off from a block in fharp an- 
gular pieces, like a gun-flint. Their axes they value above all 
that they poffefs, and never wouldpart with one of them for any 
thing that we could give : I once offered one of the beft axes I 
had in the fliip, befides a number of other things for one of 
them, but the owner would not fell it ; from which I conclude 
that good ones are fcarce among them. Their /mail tools of 
jafpar, which are ufed in finifhing their niceft work, they ufe 
till they are blunt, and then, as they have no means of fhar- 
pening them, throw them away. We had given the people at 
Tolaga a piece of glafs, and in a fhort time they found means 
to drill a hole through it, in order to hang it round the neck 
as as ornament by a thread ; and we imagine the tool muft have 
been a piece of this jafpar. How they bring their large tools 
firft to an edge, and fharpen the weapon which they call Patoo- 
Patoo, we could not certainly learn ; but probably it is by 
bruifing the fame fubftance to powder,, and, with this, grind- 
ing two pieces againft each other. 
Their nets, particularly their feine, which is of an enor- 
mous fize, have been mentioned already : one of thefe feems 
to be the joint work of a whole town, and I fuppofe it to be 
the joint property alfo : the other net, which is circular, and 
extended by two or three hoops, has been particularly de- 
fcribed, as well as the manner of baiting and ufing it. Their 
hooks are of bone or fhell, and in general are ill made. To 
receive the fifh when it is caught, and to hold their other pro- 
vifions, they have bafkets of various kinds and dimenfions, 
very neatly made of wicker work. 
They excel in tillage, as might naturally be expefted where 
the perfon that fows is to eat the produce, and where there is 
fo little befides that can be eaten : when we firft came to Te- 
gadoo, a diftrift between Poverty Bay and Eaft Cape, their 
crops were juft covered, and had not yet begun to fprout ; the 
mould was as fmooth as in a garden, and every root had its 
fmall hillock, ranged in a regular quincunx by lines, which, 
with the pegs, were ftill remaining in the field. ' We had not 
an opportunity to fee any of thefe hufbandmen work, but we 
faw what ferves them at once for fpade and plough : this in- 
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