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Their food, pork, poultry, bread fruit, bananas, yams, 

 fish, apples, dog's flesh. However, it is only the chiefs 

 Avho have flesh daily served to them, 



Their dress is not only decent but graceful ; it is formed 

 of cloth made of the macerated fibres of the inner bark of 

 a tree, spread out and beaten together. 



Their habitations are commodious and thatched with the 

 leaves of the plantain tree. 



Women (I suppose those of the second or third class) were 

 educated without any sense of modesty, and treated with the 

 most marked contempt. Men might have as many wives as 

 they could maintain, and divorce them atpleasure, nay, destroy 

 their children. They were not suffered to eat with their hus- 

 bands, and were excluded from a share of the best sorts of 

 food. The unmarried were frequently led to prostitution by 

 their fathers and brothers. There even existed a confrater- 

 nity of nobles who kept concubines in common, and pur- 

 posely destroyed their children. 



Their disposition was mild and gentle towards each other, 

 but when engaged in hostilities they treated their prisoners 

 with the most inhuman cruelty. Hence they can scarcely be 

 accounted even semi-civilized. 



This account is taken irom 2 Copk's Voy. 155, ^c- and 1 

 Hawks. CoUectioii, 148. 154. 290. 313. 314. 



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