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fishing lines, &c., which should not be oTer-looked, as their 

 introduction may be attended with considerable advantage. 



The materials of which their huts or dwellings are con- 

 structed, their forms, the various modes of dressing and pro- 

 curing their food, their attire, arms, canoes, &c. should be 

 observed ; together with their rites and ceremonies, civil, 

 and religious ; their places and forms of worship, burial 

 grounds, idols, charms, &c. deserve notice. 



The language as far as can be ascertained, should be 

 written down, and any information relative to the original 

 natives of the country is particularly desirable. It should 

 also be learnt if any Europeans have at any time settled 

 among them, either as Missionaries or otherwise ; if the 

 inhabitants are in the practice of bartering or trading with any 

 neighbouring tribe or nation, and what articles this trade 

 comprises. If and in what manner Surgical operations are 

 performed, and in what manner Medical assistance is afford- 

 ed in case of sickness, if the country is subject to periodical 

 or epidemic diseases of any kind, and how relieved. 



The longitude and latitude of each place should be ascer- 

 tained, with drafts of the coasts, shoals, mountains, rivers, &c. 

 the general degree of temperature, in what particulars the 

 astronomy of any place may differ from our own. The 

 rise and fall of the tides, the direction of any particular 

 current, and the height of their Mountains should be ascer- 

 tained, an instrument peculiarly adapted and constructed for 

 this lasf purpose, is made by Mr, Bate, Poultry, London ; it 



