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firano-e a miftake: there not beino; the mod diflant fimili- \~77- 



" ' " April. 



tilde between a flieep or goat, and any winged animal. ' . ' 



But thcfe people feemed to know nothing of the exiftence of 

 any other land-animals, bcfides hogs, dogs, and birds. 

 Our flieep and goats, they could fee, were very different 

 creatures from the two firft, and therefore they inferred, 

 that they muft belong to the latter clafs, in which they 

 knew there is a confiderable variety of fpecies. I made a 

 prefent to my new friend of what I thought might be moll 

 acceptable to him ; but, on his going away, he feemed ra- 

 ther difappointed than pleafed. I afterward underllood 

 that he was very defirous of obtaining a dog, of which 

 animal this illand could not boaft, though its inhabitants 

 knew that the race exifled in other iflands of their ocean. 

 Captain Clerke had received the like prefent, with the fame 

 view, from another man, who met with from him the like 

 difappointment. 



The people in thefe canoes were in general of a middling 

 fize, and not unlike thofe of Mangeea ; though feveral 

 were of a blacker call than any we faw there. Their hair 

 was tied on the crown of the head, or flowing loofe about 

 the flioulders ; and though in fome it was of a frizzling 

 difpofition, yet, for the moft part, tliat, as well as tlie 

 flraight fort, was long. Their features were various, and 

 fome of the young men rather hand fome. Like thofe of 

 Mangeea, they had girdles of glazed cloth, or fine matting, 

 the ends of which, being brought betwixt their thighs, co- 

 vered the adjoining parts. Ornaments, compoled of a fore 

 of broad grafs, ftained with red, and ftrung with berries of 

 the night-Ihade, were worn about their necks. Their ears 

 were bored, but not flit ; and they were puncTiured upon 

 the legs, from the knee to the heel, which made them ap- 

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