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200. Some account of New Zealand
they may be made the workmanship sufficiently proves the workmen to be dextrous in their way one peice of notability in them I must not forget which is that to every garment of the better kind is fixd a Bodkin as if to remind the wearer that if it should be torn by any accident no time should be lost before it was is mended
Netts for fishing they make in the same manner as ours of an amazing size a seine seems to be the Joint work of a whole town & I suppose the Joint property of these I think I have seen as large as ever I saw in Europe besides this they have fish pots & baskets workd with twiggs & another kind of net which they most generaly make use of that I have never seen in any countrey but this they are circular & about 7 or 8 feet in diameter & 2 or 3 deep they are stretchd by two or three hoops & open at the top for near but not quite their whole extent on the bottom is fastned the bait a little basket containing the gutts &c. of fish & sea Ears which are tied to different parts of the net this is let down to the bottom where fish are & when enough are supposd to be gatherd together indecipherable
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