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ing-lathe, and perhaps better polilhed. And amongft their 1778. 
articles of handicraft, may be reckoned fmall fquare fans of . rcbmar> '\ 
mat or wicker-work, with handles tapering from them of 
the fame, or of wood; which are neatly wrought with 
fmall cords of hair, and fibres of the cocoa-nut coir, inter¬ 
mixed. The great variety of fifhing-hooks are ingenioufly 
made; fome of bone, others of wood pointed with bone,* 
and many of pearl fhell. Of the laft, fome are like a fort 
that we faw at Tongataboo; and others limply curved, as 
the common fort at Otaheite, as well as the wooden ones. 
The bones are moftly fmall, and compofed of two pieces; 
and all the different forts have a barb, either on the in* 
fide, like ours, or on the outfide, oppolite the fame part; 
but others have both, the outer one being fartheft from 
the point. Of this laft fort, one was procured, nine inches 
long, of a fingle piece of bone, which, doubtlefs, belong¬ 
ed to fome large filh. The elegant form and polifh of 
this could not, certainly, he outdone by any European ar- 
tift, even if he fhould add all his knowledge in defign, to 
the number and convenience of his tools. They polifh 
their ftones, by conftant fridtion, with pumice-ftone in 
water ; and fuch of their working inftruments, or tools, as 
I faw, refembled thofe of the Southern Illands. Their 
hatchets, or rather adzes, were exadtly of the fame pat¬ 
tern, and either made of the fame fort of blackifh ftone, 
or of a clay-coloured one. They have alfo little inftru¬ 
ments made of a fingle fhark’s tooth, fome of which are 
fixed to the fore-part of a dog’s jaw-bone, and others to a 
thin wooden handle of the fame ftiape; and at the other 
end there is a bit of firing fattened through a fmall perfo¬ 
ration. Thefe ferve as knives occafionally, and are, per¬ 
haps, ufed in carving. 
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