ri8 an animal and vegetable food. Nov: 28; 
Though the Illyrians feed hardly, dwell in mise- 
rable huts, and mostly in marfhy and unwholesome 
regions, and upon the whole are a heavy and sluggifh 
race, yet it is no difficult matter for them to bring, 
down the monstrous oxen of their fertile country. 
by repeated strokes of their brawny fist *. 
That the negroes excel almost all the Europeans 
in bodily powers, needs no demonstration ; and yet 
these strong negroes, both in Africa and Ameri- 
ca, live more upon vegetables, than either fifh or 
fiefh+. It is the same with the inhabitants of the 
South Sea islands, and the Marian islest; of whom 
all the European travellers agree, that they would 
not choose to try their strength with them. The 
former, and especially the inhabitants of the Friendly 
isles, displayed such an. astonifhing agility and force, 
in wrestling and boxing, that they presently knock- 
ed or threw down the strongest and. most expert of 
the Englith sailors. Even women took the Englith 
under their arm, in order to transport them over 
deep streams and rivers. With equal strength, the 
jnhabitants of the Marian isles, tookevery one his man, . 
of the Europeans that had strayed from their bre- 
thren, and ran with them to their habitations with 
incredible ease. The strength of the latter is so 
extraordinary, that they can. throw-stones, by the 
* Taube, ubi supra. 
+ Des Marchais, tom. i. p. 293: Projart, tom. i. p. 13-14: De Ma- 
net, tom. i. p. 79, 87- 
} Cook’s last voyage, vol.-i. p, 246, Forster’s observations, p» 352+ 
"Voyage i.. 315. Gobier, 46. 55; 
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