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To the Eall and South-Eaft of O-Tahaltee are ftill more, popula 



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We faw about five in the year 1773 i and as many, if not more ia 

 1774. In the Endeavour feveral more were difcovered ; and Capts. 

 Wallis and Carteret found many alfo. We cannot think the 

 allov/ance too great, when we fuppofe all thefe iilands, and the^ 

 Marquefas to contain 100,000 inhabitants. 



Farther to the Weft is a duller of ifles, which we call the Friend- 

 ly liles. Tonga-Tabu the largefl of them, is in every part highly 



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cultivated ; the barren fandy outfkirts towards the fea, and the- 

 road leading through the, ille alone excepted, all the reft feems to 

 be private property, is fenced in, and inhabited by a numerous, 

 induftrious and friendly people. E-Aoowe is lefs in lize, nor is it 

 v/holly cultivated, any more than A-Namocka : neverthelefs there 

 are great numbers of inhabitants in both. About A-Namocka is 



a colledlion of fmall ifles, all full of people : and if we confult 

 Taefman, v/e find the fame archipelago continued under the name 



I fuppofe the inhabitants of all thefe 



of Prince William's Ifles. 

 ifles amount to about 200,000. 



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Still more to the Wefl is that clufter of large iflands, to which 

 we gave the name of the New Hebrides. Thefe, though far from 



being fo populous as the 



Society and Friendly Ifles, yet being 



infinitely larger. 



contain a confiderable number of inhabitants 



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