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know. Next to him are the inhabitants of the Ladrone or Ma- 

 rianne Iflands, who have, indeed, the ufe of fpeech ; but they do 

 not wear clothes, have not the life of fire, nor cat flelh,, but fubiift 

 entirely upon vegetables, with the addition of what lifh they can 

 catch. They are, as I have faid *, a very ftrong and healthy race, 

 above feven feet in ftature, and fo adive, particularly in the water, 

 and fo difficult to be killed, as to us appears incredible : But the fol- 

 lowing fad:s are attefted by an eye-witnefs, Captain Cowley, one of 

 our circumnavigators in the end of the lad century ; and I will relate 

 them in his own words. ' We took, ' fays he, ' four of thefe infidels 

 ' (meaning the inhabitants ofoneof the Ladrone Iflands,) prifoners, 



* and brought them on board, binding their hands behind them • 

 ' but they had not been long there before three of them leaped over 



* board into the fea, fwimming away from the fhip with their hands 

 ' tied behind them. However, we fent the boat after them, and 

 ' found that a ftrong man, at the firft blow, could not penetrate their 



* fkins with a cutlafs. One of them had received, in my judgment, 



* forty fhots in his body before he died : And the laft of the three, 



* that was killed, had fwum a good Englijh mile firft, not only with 



* his hands tied behind him, but alfo with his arms pinioned f .' 

 —And fo much for the Body of Man in the natural ftate. 



I will now inquire concerning his Mind, which, it is evident, ac- 

 cording to my philofophy, can be nothing elfe but the mere animal 

 Mind, without Intelle(5t, which he has not yet acquired, nor can ac- 

 quire in this ftate of his exiftence, otherwife than by the intercourfe 

 of focial life, the invention and the practice ot arts. But, in place of 

 intellect, he has, as well as other animals, inftind, by which he is 

 directed unerringly to every thing that is proper for the preferva- 

 tion of the individual and the continuation of the kind. 



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