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Updated: May 5, 2025
They are plain or coloured, and of all patterns, and could be manufactured to any degree of fineness, according to the price promised to the workmen. Ropemaking is extensively carried on; the best cordage manufactured in the islands being made from the fibres of the plantain-tree, which is known in commerce by the name of Manilla hemp.
Sauntering among the ropemaking, I am spun into a state of blissful indolence, wherein my rope of life seems to be so untwisted by the process as that I can see back to very early days indeed, when my bad dreams they were frightful, though my more mature understanding has never made out why were of an interminable sort of ropemaking, with long minute filaments for strands, which, when they were spun home together close to my eyes, occasioned screaming.
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