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AN ACCOUNT OF 
They made alfo vefTels of a kind of earthen-ware, of a red- 
dijfh brown colour, and moftly of an oval lhape. In thefe 
they heated their water, and boiled their fifh, yams, &c.—Our 
people obferved the natives were particularly careful of this 
pottery, never permitting any of it to approach the fire un- 
lefs gradually, and always moving it with great caution; from 
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which circumftances it is probable they have not yet been 
able to difcover a method of burning it fufficiently. 
A bundle of cocoa-nut hulks, tied together, formed a 
broom, to dull or fweep their habitations.—The only con- 
veniency they had of keeping water in their houfes, or 
bringing it from their fprings, was in thick bamboos, that 
had a bore of five or fix inches diameter; thefe they placed 
upright, and hooped them when they wanted to pour any 
out, being at the upper end lipped fo as to form a kind of 
fpout. 
Their hatchets were not unlike thofe of the South Sea 
iflands, of which fo many have been feen in England; the 
blade part being made of the ftrongefi: part of the large 
Kima Cockle , ground to a fharp edge.—But they were happy 
to adopt iron, when it had been given to them. 
They had alfo another kind of hatchet, which was formed 
in a manner to move round in a groove, that the edge might 
a£t longitudinally or tranfverfely, by which it would ferve as 
a hatchet or an adze, as occafion required.—Uncouth as their 
hatchets 
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