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They f\ilutc flrangers much after the manner of the New i777- 

 Zealanders, by joining nofes ; adding, however, the addi- v— — v — -* 

 tional ceremony of taking the hand of the perfon to whom 

 they are paying civilities, and rubbing it with a degree of 

 force upon their nofe and mouth *. 



* The inhabitants of the Palaos, New Philippine, or rather Caroline IHands, at 

 the ciiftance of almofl: fifteen hundred leagues from Mangeea, have the Hime mode of 

 falutation. " Leur civilite, & la marque de leur refpecS, confifte a prendre la main 

 " ou le pied de celui a qui ils veulent faire honneur, & s'en frotter doucement tout 

 *' le vifage." Lettres Edifa/iUs iff Curieufes, Tom. xv. p. 208. Edit, 1781. 



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