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has the same irascible caprice. He is nervous, restless, impatient. 

 Superstition is one of his prominent failings. He is hospitable ; his 

 first advances are warm, earnest, playful ; then, at the least chill, 

 and from motives which a stranger cannot always appreciate, an 

 abrupt revolution takes place, and he becomes wayward and moody. 

 " The women are of medium stature, their contours frequently 



ISLANDERS OF ^SOUKAHIVA. 



modelled with a purity which the sculptor has revealed to us almost 

 alone in France. . . . Few women of fashion are more graceful, if not 

 in their movements, at least in their attitudes ; and the women of 

 the neighbouring archipelagoes, the so much eulogized Tahitians,* 



* Compare the narratives of the early voyagers, especially those of De Bougainville, 

 Cook, and Wallis. 



