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they have attained a certain height. The fame may be faid 1777. 
of another large tree, which produces great numbers of a ^ } ' 
large, roundifh, compreffed nut, called eeefee ; and of a 
fmaller tree, that bears a rounded oval nut, two inches long, 
with two or three triangular kernels, tough and inftpid, 
called mabba , mo ft frequently planted near their houfes. 
The kappe is, commonly, regularly planted, and in pretty 
large fpots; but the mawhahci is interfperfed amongft other 
things, as the jeejee and yams are ; the laft of which, I have 
frequently feen in the interfpaces of the plantain trees, at 
their common diftance. Sugar-cane is commonly in frnall 
fpots, crowded clofely together; and the mulberry, of 
which the cloth is made, though without order, has fuffi- 
cient room allowed for it, and is kept very clean. The 
only other plant, that they cultivate for their manufac¬ 
tures, is the pandanus ; which is generally planted in a 
row, clofe together, at the Ikies of the other fields; and 
they confider it as a thing fo diftimft in this ftate, that 
they have a different name for it; which Ihews, that they 
are very fenftble of the great changes brought about by 
cultivation. 
It is remarkable, that thefe people, who, in many 
things, Ihew much tafte and ingenuity, fhould Ihew little 
of either in building their houfes ; though the defecft is ra¬ 
ther in the defign, than in the execution. Thofe of the 
lower people are poor huts, fcarcely fufticient to defend 
them from the weather, and very frnall. Thofe of the 
better fort, are larger and more comfortable ; but not what 
one might expedl. The dimenftons of one of a middling 
fize, are about thirty feet long, twenty broad, and twelve 
high. Their houfe is, properly fpeaking, a thatched roof 
<sr fhed, fupported by polls and rafters, difpofed in a very 
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