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canoes, a dcg carved, and feparatc from the 

 canoes, which led me to imagine that thefe fa- 

 vages poffefs this animal ; but I remarked with 

 furprife that they had given it nearly the fliape 

 of a blood-hound : however, it is probable that 

 they have not this variety, and that the fculp- 

 ture which we faw was only a coarfely executed 

 reprefentation of tliefpecies of dog that is met 

 with in mofl of the iflands of the South Sea. 



Thcfe favages were obliged to remain con- 

 ftantly at the bottom of their canoes, to prevent 

 their being overfet by the waves ; and they ex- 

 perienced the difagrceableiiefs of being feated 

 in the water which the canoe fhipped, but they 

 took care to bale it out from time to time. 



Among the articles which we were able to 

 obtain from them, was a large line, fixed to the 

 extremity of a long flick. This appeared to me 

 fomewhat remarkable, as mofl of the favages 

 that we had feen are in the habit of holding in 

 the hand the line with which they fifh. Their 

 hooks were of torroife-fhell. 



The ornaments of thefe people confifted of 

 bracelets made of different (hells ; among thefe 

 was the fea-ear, which I had no difficulty in 

 recognizing; others, made of cocoa-nut bafs, 

 were adorned with a great quantity of feeds 

 of coix lachryma Johi, faftened round ail their 

 circumference. 



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