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have been transplanted, in order to give thema finer and softer texture.

Gie, stronger mats made of the bark of thefozo or olonga, worn chiefly by people in canoesto keep out the wet, as the water does not da-mage them : they appear as if they were madeof horse-hair. Labillardiere mentions that hesaw a woman of rank with a sort of mat madeof the white hair of a horse’s tail. He supposedthat it must have been procured from somehorses that Cook had left there.

Falla , mats to sleep on, made of the leavesof the paoongo. These are double, and are ofvarious sizes, from six feet by three, to seventyor eighty feet by six; to lie along the wholelength of the house.

La , mats for sails, made of the leaves of thefa ; they are very strong and light.

Tacapoio,' mats for flooring houses, made ofthe young leaves of the cocoa-nut tree.

Tattffw, a sort of matting, plaited in a veryornamental way, made of young cocoa-nutleaves: they are used to screen the sides ofhouses from the weather.

Cato , baskets : these are of various construc-tions ; sometimes of a sort of matting madewith the leaves of the fa, paoongo, lo acow, &c.;at other times of the fibrous root of the cocoa-nut tree interwoven with plait made of the husk