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fruit or Its four pafte^ yams, eddoesj- &c. They are very nume- animal 

 rous at the Society-Ides, where you hardly pafs a houfe that is 

 without them, and fi'cquently meet with fome that keep a great 

 number. There is Ukewife abundance of them at the Marquefas- 

 and a confiderable number at Amfterdam, one of the Friendly- 



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are more 



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Weftern-iiles of 



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Hebrides. The dogs of the South Sea ifles are of a fingular race : 



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they moil refemble the common cur, but. have a prodigious large 



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head, remarkably little eyes, prick-ears, long hair and a fliort 

 bufhy tail. They are chiefly fed with fruit at the Society liles ; 

 bu,t in the low ifles and New Zeeland, where they are ths 



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only domeftic animals, they live upon fifli-. They are exceeding- 

 ly flupid, and feldom or. never bark, only howl now and then ;, 

 have the fenfe of fmelling in a very low degree, and are lazy be- 

 yond meafure : they are kept by the natives chiefly for the fake of 

 their fleili,. of which they are. very fond, preferring it to pork; 

 they alfo make ufe of their hair, in various ornaments, efpecially 

 to fringe their breafl: plates in the Society Ifles, and to face or even 



line the whole garment at New Zeeland. 



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Befldes the dog. New- Zeeland boalls four other quadrupeds, one is 

 the rat, the other a fmall bat, refembling that defcribed in Mr. Pen- 



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aant's Synopfls of Quadrupeds, No. 283* under the name of New- 

 York bat5 the third is the fea-bear, or urfme feal, Penn. Syn. Quad. 



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