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but regular manner, in fcrolls, circles, lines, and chequerwifej which 

 of courfe deftroys all the features, and the regularity of lineaments. 



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ftrong and mufcular, with an agreeable outline. The young people 

 are generally mofb beautiful, and would afford many a fine model 

 for a Ganymede. The women have a foft, melting outline, the 

 finefl: fymmetry, and the moil delicate extremities. Their fizc 

 runs in general to the middle flature of men, and few or none, are 

 what we could call little. They appeared to us courteous, civil, 

 and hofpitable ; had a great deal of curiofity, and the fame levity, 

 which is the general charadier of tropical nations. But, as our flay 

 among them was fliort, we cannot enter into any more particular 

 detail of their charader. 



We made but half an hour's ftay at Teoukea, one of the low 



lies betwee 



Marquefas and O-Tahe 



d in this time we 



obferved the natives to be of a very tawny colour, common to both 



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They were a ftout people, with well-proportioned limbs. 



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and blacl^ hair ; had on the breaft, belly, and fometime^ on the 

 hands, feme figures made by puncturing the body; and were of a 

 middling fize. They received us with kindnefs ; 



nuts and dogs for nails ; and, though very numerous and well- 



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