The beaters are made of hard wood with four square sides, are about 3 or 4 inches broad and cut into grooves of different fineness; this makes the Cloth look at first sight as if it was wove with thread, but I believe the principal use of the Groves is to facilitate the beating it out, in the doing of which they often beat holes in it, or one place thinner than another; but this is easily repair'd by pasting on small bits, and this they do in such a manner that the Cloth is not the least injured.

The finest sort when bleached is very white and comes nearest to fine Cotton.

Thick cloth, especially fine, is made by pasting two or more thickness's of thin cloth, made for that Purpose, together.

Coarse thick cloth and ordinary thin cloth is made of the Bark of Bread fruit Trees, and I think I have been told that it is sometimes made from the Bark of other trees.
The making of Cloth is wholy the work of the women, in which all ranks are employ'd.

Their common colours are red, brown and yellow, with which they dye some pieces just as their fancy leads them.