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POPULA- fons, including warriors, paddlers, and fteerers 5 and in the fmaller 



about 30. (We found, indeed, fome war-canoes, that required 1^.^ 

 paddlers, eight men to ileer, one to command the paddlers, and 

 about 30 warriors for the ftage; but, as there are only one or two 

 vefTels of that iize in each illand, we can make no inference from 

 thence.) To be very moderate in our computations, we will fup- 



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pofe no more than 20 men in each of thefe war- canoes ; and, ac- 

 cording to this lafl fjppofition, the men required to defend and 

 navigate 1200 veffels, will amount to 24,000. Each of the fmall 



ding boats contained at a medium five men 



fequently th 



crews of all the fmall canoes of the 24 diilrifts, at the rate of 25 

 veffels from each diflridt, -form a number of 3000, which, added to 



the comolement of the 



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ther fuppofe each of thefe men to be married to a woman, and to 



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have one child , and in this cafe, we fliall have the number of 



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81,000 perfons. Every one will allow, that this is the very lowefl 

 computation that can be made, and that the number of living inha- 

 bitants of T-Obreonoo mull be at leafh double the above number. 

 For all the inhabitants are not warriors j nor are all employed in 

 navigating the veffels ; there remain belides, many old men at 



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home; and it is certainly infuflicient to allow a lingle child for 



every married couple; for marriage here is commonly bleffed with 



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a numerous offspring. I have iz^n more than one family, wherein 



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