"But how can they make bottles," said he.

"That requires some preparation," replied I."They tie a bandage round the young gourd near the stalk, so that the part at liberty expands in a round form, and the compressed part remains narrow.
They then open the top, and extract the contents by putting in pebbles and shaking it.

By this means they have a complete bottle." We worked on.

Fritz completed a dish and some plates, to his great satisfaction, but we considered, that being so frail, we could not carry them with us.

We therefore filled them with sand, that the sun might not warp them, and left them to dry, till we returned.
As we went on, Fritz amused himself with cutting spoons from the rind of the gourd, and I tried to do the same with the fragments of the cocoa-nut; but I must confess my performances were inferior to those I had seen in the museum in London, the work of the South Sea islanders.
We laughed at our spoons, which would have required mouths from ear to ear to eat with them.