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THE 



VARIE- 

 TIES OF 



MEN. 



and generous friends ; intrepid and bold warriors ; implacable and 

 cruel enemies, carrying their thiril; of revenge even to fuch a degree 

 of inhumanity, as to feaft upon their unfortunate prifoners, the 



wretched victims to a ferocious and uncultured difpofition. 



They 



are generally men of found underfbanding, and have taile and ge- 



nius ; as proofs of which, may be mentioned, their curious carv- 



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ings, and other manufad:ures. 



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II. The varieties of men belonging to the fecond tribe or 

 race of people in the South Seas, are all confined within the tro- 



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pics to its moil Weftern parts. 



Firji, The extenfive country of New -Caledonia though 

 near the continent of New-Holland, is inhabited by a fet of men, 

 who are totally different from the flender diminutive natives of that 

 country, and in 



many 



efpeds diftinguifhed from all the natives 



belonging to the firft tribe, living in the Eaftern ifles of the South 



^ea. 



dolent, and the women are the grcateft drudges upon the face '^f the earth. I Aeut. Curtis. 



'lof* Tr^nJ 



nji, 



Bofc 



moft laborious part of all work is delegated to women ; for this takes place among the Hot- 

 tentots, according to Kolbcn^s Defer, of the Cape of Good Hope. vol. i. p. 160. and La CailWs 

 Voyage au Cap. Je B. E. The women about Sierra Leon were feen hard a^ work by KceUf,g, 

 Foy. The nation of the Giagas are dcfcrlbed to be moft unfeelingly cruel to their women. 



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Hif. of Man 



Mr. Falhier obferved of the women amons: 



the Puelches, Tchuelhets, and other Patagonlan tribes, that their lives are but one continued 

 fcene of labour ; for, befides nurfing and bringing up their children, ' they arc obliged tq 

 fubmit to every fpeclcs of drudgery. Falhicr'i Defcriptlon of Patagonia, p. 1 2 r. 



