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fpherical form, and furmountcd by a fmall pro- 

 tuberance, in V, hich they had made a hole for 

 pafllng a line through. It mufi: be very diffi- 

 cult for thefe favages to bore ftones fo hard, 

 and no doubt it takes them a great deal of time; 

 but they have icifure enough to devote them- 

 felvcs to works of this fort ; for their wants are 

 few, and, befides^ the fea furniilies them with 

 food in great abundance. They fold us a good 

 deal of fiih which they had juft caught: there 

 is fo great a quantity along the coaft, that, in 

 the little time that we continued lying to, we 

 faw feveral very numerous fhoals, which, rifmg 

 to the furface of the fea, ruffled it at different 

 times for a very extenfive fpace, producing 

 nearly the fiune effects as the currents that, in 

 calm weather, pafs over fhoals. 



Thefe favages even fl ripped themfelves of 

 their clothes, to procure our articles of traffic. 



Some of the young lads had car-rings, made 

 of \ery hard ferpent-flone; they were of an 

 oval form, and mod of them were a decimeter 

 in lejigth. 



The men wore, as a fort of trophy, a fmall 

 part of a human cubitus^ which hung on their 

 breaff at the end of a firing paffed round their 

 neck. {See Plate XXF.) They fet a great value 

 en this ornament. 



It 



