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Some account of Savu

we saw in their plantations  which guess was afterwards confirmd by Mr Lange  we likewise saw them dye womens girdles of a dirty reddish colour  Their Cloth itself was universaly dyed in the yarn with blue  
[Margin Note]  clouded Cloth
which being unevenly & irregularly done gave the cloth a Clouding or waving of colour not unelegant even in our eyes.

One Chirurgical operation of theirs Mr Lange mentiond to us with great praises which indeed appears sensible  it is a method of curing wounds which they do by first washing the wound in water in which Tamarinds have been steepd  then pluging it up with a pledget made of fat of fresh pork  in this manner the wound is thouroughly cleans'd & the pledget renewd every day  he told us that by this means they had a very little while ago curd a man in three weeks of a wound of a lance which had peircd his arm & half through his body  this is the only part of either their medicinal or chirurgical art which came to our knowledge  indeed they did not seem to outward appearance to have much occasion for either  but on the contrary
 

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