Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . ail, ora sail-needle, to the end of this sort ofspindle. Get a thick piece of wood,about the size of what is called inEngland a hot cross bun, and inScotland a cookie, bore a hole inthe centre of it, run the spindle throughit, and wedge it fast about the middleof the spindle. At the top of the spindlefasten two strings, each nine incheslong, to the ends of these strings attach the endsof a common cedar pencil, forming a triangle with awooden base and string sides. Stand up the machinewith your
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . ail, ora sail-needle, to the end of this sort ofspindle. Get a thick piece of wood,about the size of what is called inEngland a hot cross bun, and inScotland a cookie, bore a hole inthe centre of it, run the spindle throughit, and wedge it fast about the middleof the spindle. At the top of the spindlefasten two strings, each nine incheslong, to the ends of these strings attach the endsof a common cedar pencil, forming a triangle with awooden base and string sides. Stand up the machinewith your left hand, place the iron point where youwish to bore a hole, and steady the spindle withyour left hand. Take hold of the pencil handle ofthe upper triangle, twirl round the spindle with yourleft hand, which will coil on the strings at the top tothe spindle, pull down the pencil handle quickly, andthen the machine will spin round. Work the handlein this way up and down, like a pump, the cord willalternately run off and on to the spindle, and themachine will continue to whirl round, first one way. ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE. 275 and then the other, until the pearl-shell, or what*ever it may be, is perforated. There is hardly anything else in the departmentof manufacture requiring par-ticular notice. When speak-ing of garments, we refer-red to native cloth and quantities of cinnet isplaited by the old men prin-cipally. They sit at then-ease in their houses, andtwist away very political meetings also,where there are hours offormal palaver and speechi-fying, the old men take theirwork with them, and im-prove the time at the cleanly,useful occupation of twist-ing cinnet. It is a substitute for twine, anduseful for many a purpose, and is sold at about ashilling per pound. Baskets and fans are made of the m w ,m
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