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of the lovvefl clafs (the touas)^ who ate human 

 fieih; neverthelefs it appeared to us^ from what 

 we picked up from other quarters, that it was 

 likewife eaten by the chiefs: in fad, as thefe 

 people devour none but their enemies, and 

 commit this atrocity only to fatiate their fury, 

 we may believe that the natives of Tongataboo 

 did not impofe on us in afierting that at Fidgi 

 ihe'liiijjfs even were anthropophagi. 



It will be io-tw no doubt with aftonifnment 

 that, notwithfranding this characler of ferocity, 

 the arts are much more advanced at Fidgi than 

 at the Friendly Iflands, where the inhabitants 

 never failed to announce to us, that the hand- 

 fom.eft articles wiiich they fold us came from 

 Fidgi; and they took care to let us know that 

 thefe articles had a very decided fuperiority to 

 thofe which they mianufadtured themfelves. 



Vc.uacecee manifelied a much greater defire of 

 improving himfelf than any inhabitant of the 

 Friendly Iflands, mof. of whom v, ere induced 

 to vifit us only from views of intcrcll. He 

 examined every part of our fliip with thegreat- 

 c[l attention. This ifiandcr v.as of a very tall 

 ilature. and had a mofl decided cafi of counte- 

 i'ance. (Sec Viale XXI }(. Fig. i.) His hair, 

 in the fore part of the head, Mas poudcrcd red. 



The natives of h'idgi arc frequently at v,ar 

 with thofc of Tongataboo J but as fcon as hof- 



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