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his with all other information through the 

 course of the work. Therefore shall now pro- 

 ceed in the proposed plan ; first with 



THE 



KATURE, customs, and manners 



OF THE NATIVES, 



£e*it the male and female natives, are not 

 generally tall, and very few of either sex are 

 well made, their limbs are long and thin, the 

 exercise they take, and the poverty. of their 

 living, must be the cause, for the climate is 

 particularly fine. But the limbs of those who 

 reside in the woods, exceed in length those on 

 the coast ; for these suffer very great difficul- 

 ties to procure food, while those on the coast 

 draw from the never-failing ocean an ample 

 supply of fish; but the inhabitants of the 

 woods have to hunt and climb trees for animals 

 and honey; enabled by the parental hand of 

 providence they effect this, with little labour 

 armed with a stone hatchet, they cut a notch 

 in the tree big enough to place the ball of the 

 great toe, which done, they take the first step, 

 embracing the tree with one arm, and holding 

 the hatchet in the other, in this situation the 

 next notch is cut higher up, for the other foot 

 to rest on, and proceeding thus they reach as 

 high as they wish, which is often from eighty 

 to an hundred feet. The features of the men 



