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Motuaro

after breakfast we went ashore at a large Indian fort or heppah   a great number of people immediately crouded about us & sold almost a boat load of fish in a very short time  they then went & shewd us their plantations which were very large of Yamms  Cocos and sweet potatoes  & after having a little laught at our seine, which was a common kings seine  shewd us one of theirs which was 5 fathom deep  its lengh we could only guess as it was not stretchd out but it could not from its bulk be less than 4 or 500 fathom   fishing seems to be the cheif business of this part of the countrey  about all their towns are abundance of netts laid upon small heaps like hay cocks & thatchd over & almost every house you go into has netts in it making

After this they shewd us a great rarity 6 plants of what they calld Aouta from whence they made cloth like the Otahite cloth  the plant provd exactly the same  as the name is the same  as is usd in the Islands  Morus papyrifera Linn.  the same plant as is usd by the Chinese to make paper  whether the Climate does not well agree with it I do not know  but they seemd
 

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