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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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