A Narrative of the Mutiny, On Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824
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My present consisted of a piece abouttwo feet long and six inches in diameter. It is made of a kind offruit common among these Islands, and called by the inhabitants, _bup_. The fruit is scraped very fine, and then laid in the sun untilperfectly dry. Some of the leaves of the tree bearing the fruit, arethen wrapped round a piece of wood, which is the _mould or former_, and when securely tied with strings, the former is withdrawn, and intothis cylinder of leaves is put the _bup_, which is of a s...weet andpleasant taste. At the urgent request of the natives, I now adopted their dress. Having but one pair of trowsers and a shirt left, I laid them by forbad weather, and put on the costume of a Mulgrave Islander. Thisdress, if it may be so called, consists in a broad belt fastened roundthe waist, from which is suspended two broad tassels. The belt is madefrom the leaves of the _bup tree_, and very ingeniously braided, towhich is attached the tassels, which are made of a coarser material, being the bark of a small vine, in their language called _aht-aht_.
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