Note 282 — Extracts from “The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his Second Voyage to the South Sea, 1591,” published in Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part IV, lib. vi, c. 7. London, 1625.
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Nlele, the general name for European cloth. They do make cloth from the inner bark of the banyan tree (see p. 18, note).