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TSat only the difference o f materials,' but alfo the defiination and
colour caufes various differences in the cloth.: in general, every
kind of cloth is called ahou.% but a garment, chiefly, o f the fort
called fo&fl, intended for the women, is named faraovat : i f in the
•middle o f a -piece o f about fix feet in length, alongitudinal hole is
cut, the-natives oall this drefs teepoota-; i t is a very common garment
for-both faxes, who put the head through .the hole, and differ it
either to hang lofe on both tides -below the knees, or they inclofe it
by another piece o f cloth, coining up almoft to the bread, and
ferving indead of a wrapper. Pieces o f cloth are ufed by bo th fexes
.as a fafb, which covers -their nudities ; that which is .worn b y men,
they call micro ; that by women pareoo : red cloth iscalled £siohcl—aio;
the yellow kind is named heapa : there is-a.yellow cloth on which
they make red figures, by dipping a bamboo reed in .the red die,
and damping it-on the cloth,-this is-known b y the name apa-, the
fort which is not only brown, but covered with, a kind o f varnifh
or gummofity, they call poosmhmtee. Their - dies, -are -very fine and
bright, and would deferve more attention i f they, were lad in g:
the red die requires a go o d deal o f labour and*care, in preparing.it;
the fruit of a fmall fig called mattee (ficus .tindloria) affords a drop
or two o f a milky juice, when it is broken off, from the tree ; this
juice is carefully gathered in a clean cup o f coco-,nut flicll, and after
having a fufficiency o f it, they foak i t in the leaves of the etoit, or
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cordia febefieria, which imbibe the milky juice, and foon tinge it. a r t s
o f the fined crimfon imaginable;-' the whole is gently fqueezed SCIENCES.
out, and drained through the filaments o f coco-nuts, and ufed to
die cloth with : indead o f the e^tm, fometimes the leaves o f the
t-ahmhoo, or -tournefortia fe r ic ea , are employed; or thofe of the
pohoba or convolvulus brafilienjis, or even thofe o f th e e^pooa or fiolanum
repandum: the foie juice of. the m a t t e e affords a yellow colour ; but
tlie bed yellow die-is made of the juice dripping from the peduncles
o f th e h iiifcu s pundlatus f . populneus, or e-meero : the watery infufion
o f the root o f the e-nono, or morinda' citrifo lia, dies a fine yellow;1
another kind is extrafted from the- tamannoo, or the calophyllum
inophyllum: -one o f the fpurges called epirree^pirree, affords a bay
brown colour; and the foaked bark o f the tootooe, or aleurites t r i loba,
yields' a gum or refinous fubdance, ufed by thefe people for
varnithing their, brown cloth (p o ow h ir r e e .)
M a t s are employed for various purpofes, and are either articles
o f drefs, or are ufed for carpeting and bedding, or form their fails;
thofe for drefs are chiefly worn when they go a fiihing, and in rainy
weather. The bark o f the pooro'ii, or h iiifcu s fWaceus, is manufactured
into mats, named e-poorhoa, which are very ftrong, and look
as i f they were made of a coarfe flax or hemp ; fome of them are very
fine, but have always a kind of hardmefs: the mat called e-wharbu
is made from the leaves o f a fpecies of athrodattylis : the fined
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