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the fake of any thing elfe than the feathers, (excepting the domeflic, animal 

 fowls and wild ducks) of which, they make a variety of ornaments, 

 and upon which, as real luxuries, they fet .a very high value : . nay, 



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f© far are they from eating all birds, that they have a kind of fuper- 

 flitious regard for. herons and king-fijfhers, almoft likfe that which 

 is paid to the flork, the robin red- breafl>, the fwallow, and. other 



familiar, harmlefs birds in England, . The natives of the Society ; 



Ifles. have their immenfe helmets 



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getSL covered, with 



Hiining plumes of. a pigeon, and edged round with a vail number 

 of the long white tail feathers- of the tropic-bird : but what they 

 value as much as diamonds and pearls are efleemed. in Europe, are 

 the crimfon feathers of certain parroquets, of which, they make 

 taffels to ornament the .warriors. . We accidentally procured a quan- 

 tity of thefe feathers at Amflerdam, one of the Friendly Ifles, where 

 they faftened them on pieces of their -fluffs. Thefe being carried 



to O-Y^M^dY, .and, fhared out in_. little pieces, procured us a great 



number of hogs j for a bit of two-inches fquare,., covered with. 



feathers, , would at any time, be. eagerly purchafed with 



a 



hog 



The reft of the tropical , iflanders make a variety of ^ ornaments :o£. 

 birds feathers, fuch as: crefled caps; at . EaTrer , Ifle, and the.. 



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Marquefas, fly-flaps, , &c. The hair of the, dog is employed in, 

 fi-inging their targets at O-Taheitee, and nothing is more 



than vafl: hunches of human hair tied round the knees .am 



common ^ 



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