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199. Some account of New Zealand
after which they are thrown away as useless for it impossible ever again to sharpen them with these fragments of Jasper I suppose it was that at Tolaga they cut bord a hole through a peice of Glass that we had given to them just large enough to admit a thread in order to convert it into an ornament but what method they make use of to cut & polish their weapons calld by them patoo patoo which are made of very hard stone I must confess I am quite ignorant
[Margin note] Cloth manufact: For their Cloths they are made exactly in the same manner as is usd by the inhabitants of South America some of whose workmanship procurd at Rio de Janeiro I have on board the warp or long threads are laid very close together & each crossing by the of the woof is distant from another an inch at least but they have besides this several other kinds of cloth & work borders to them all which I have before mentiond but as to their manner of doing I must confess myself totaly ignorant I never but once saw any of this work going forwards that was done in a kind of frame of the breadth of the Cloth across which it was spread & the cross threads workd in by hand which must be very tedious but howsoever
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