They made alfo veflels of a kind of earfheh-ware, of a fed-
difh brdwft^colour; andmoftly of ati oval toape.' la thefe
they heated their water, and boiled their fiCh, ' yanas,: 8£c. —
Our people obferved themtives werehpartrcularly careful of
this pottery, never permitting any of it to approach the fire
unlefs gradually, and always moving' it with great caution ;
from which circumftances /it is probable they have not yet
difcovered a method o f burning it fuffieiently. ”
- A‘ bundle of cocoa-nut hulks, tied together, formed a
broom, to duft of fweep their habitations— T he only don-'
veniency they had for keeping water in their houfesf or
bringing it from their \fprings, was thick'bamboos., that
had a bore ofhve or fix inches diameter ; thefe they placed.
Upright, and ftooped them when they wanted to pour any
oust, being-at the upper end lipped fo as to form a kind of
fpout.
I Their hatchets were not unlike thofe of the -South Sea
iflands, of which fo many have been feen in England.; the'
blade part being made of the ftrongeft part o f the large
frateri. Kirna Cockle? ground to a fharp edge.— But they were happy
S 2‘ to adopt iron, when it had been given to them.
They had alfo another kind Of hatchet, Which was formed
in a manner to move round in a groove, that the edge might
aa longitudinally, or tranfverfely, by which it would lerve as
a hatchet, or an adze,as. occahon required.— Uncouth as their
hatchets*