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366.
Some account of Savu

different appartments  we did not learn only were told that the loft was appropriated to the women

The shortness of our stay & few opportunities we had of going among these people gave us no opportunities of seing what arts or manufactures they might have among them  that they spin  weave & dye their cloth we however made a shift to learn for tho I we never saw them practise any of these arts yet the instruments of them we accidentaly fell in our way  first a machine for clearing cotton of its seeds which was made in miniature much upon the same principles as ours in Europe  it consisting of 2 cylinders about as thick as a mans thumb the one of which was turnd round by a plain wynch handle & that turnd the other round by an endless worm at their extremities  the whole was not above 7 inches high & about twice as long  how it answerd I know not but know that it had been much workd & that there were many peices of cotton hanging on different parts of it  which alone inducd me to beleive it a real

 

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