THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
Their belt knives were formed of a piece of the large 
mother of pearl oyfter-fhell, ground narrow, and the out¬ 
ward fide a little polifhed.—The fort more common was made 
of a piece of fome mufcle-fhell, or of a fplit bamboo, which 
they fharpen to an edge, and render exceedingly fer~ 
viceable. 
Their combs were formed of the orange-tree; the handle 
and teeth fafhioned from the folid wood, and not in fepa- 
rate pieces clofely connected together, like fchofe brought 
from moft of the late-difcovered iflands. 
No man ftirred abroad without his balket of beetle-nut.— 
The common order of people had a fhort piece of bamboo, in 
which they carried the powdered chinam, to drew over the 
beetle-nut before they put it in their mouths. The Rupacks 
or great people had their chinam in a long (lender bam¬ 
boo, nicely polifhed, and inlaid with pieces of fhells at each 
end ; and thefe were often not inelegantly fancied. 
Their fifhing-hooks were of tortoife-fhell. Their twines, 
their cords, and all their fifhing-nets, were well manufactur¬ 
ed, and made from the hulks of the cocoa-nut. The mats 
on which they llept, and threw over them when at reft, 
were formed of the plantain-leaf. 
At their meals they generally ufed a plantain-leaf inftead 
of a plate; the fhell of the cocoa-nut ferving as a cup to 
drink out of, which they fometimes polifhed very nicely. 
They 
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