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February. ' 11/ C5' 



«— V ' moll of the people we have vilitcd in this ocean, they were 



exceedingly friendly to us. And it does their fenfibility no 

 little credit, without flattering ourfelvcs, that when they 

 faw the various articles of our European manufaiflure, they 

 could not help exprclling their furprize, by a mixture of joy 

 and concern, that fcemcd to apply the cafe, as a Icllbn of 

 humility to thcmfclvcs ; and, on nil occafions, they ap- 

 peared deeply imprelTcd with a confcioufncfs of their own 

 inferiority ; a behaviour which equally exempts their na- 

 tional character from the prepollicrous pride of the more 

 poliflied Japanefe, and of the ruder Grecnlander. It was a 

 pleafure to obfcrve with how much allcolion the women 

 managed their infants, and how readily the men lent their 

 afllrtance to fuch a tender ollice ; thus fuflicicntly diftin- 

 gui(hing themfclves from thofe favages, who efteem a wife 

 and child as things rather ncccfUiry, than dcfnable, or 

 worthy of their notice. 



From the numbers which we faw collected at every vil- 

 lage, as we failed pad, it may be fuppofcd, that the inhabit- 

 ants of this ifland are pretty numerous. Any computation, 

 that we make, can be only conjciflural. But, that fome 

 notion may be formed, which fliall not greatly err on 

 cither fide, I would fuppofe, that, including the draggling 

 houi'cs, there might be, upon tlic whole iiland, lixty fuch 

 villages, as that before which we anchored ; and that, al- 

 lowing five perfons to each houfe, there would be, in every 

 village, five hundred; or thirty thoufand upon the iiland. 

 This number is, certainly, not exaggerated ; for we had 

 Ibmetimes three thouiand perfons, at leall, upon the beach ; 

 when it could not be fuppofcd, that above a tenth part of 

 the inhabitants were prefcnr. 



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