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vinced them tliat we did not intend to do them any harm, tHey let u 

 freely pafs and repafs. I have gone accompanied by one or two 

 perfons only, feveral miles up the country. I hardly know an in- 



They fhev/edat times 



ilance of their ftealing any thing from us. 



almoft as much levity as the other nations of the South Seas; thou 

 in my opinion they were in general more grave; however they ar 

 lively, brifk, and ready to do any fervice tl 



lies in thei 



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or to give any information that is wanted, provided the enquirer 

 ean make himfelf underflood. 



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thirdly. The natives of Mallicollo are a fmall, nimble, 

 Sender, black and ill-favoured fet of beings, that of all men I ever 



iliw, border the nearefl upon the tribe of monkies. 



of a very fmgular ilrudure, being from the root of th 



Their 11 



nofe more 



depreffed backward, than in any of the other races of mankind, 

 which we had formerly feen . Their women are ugly and deformed, 

 and as I have before remarked in each of the varieties of men of the- 



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fecond race, they were here likewife obliged to ad the part of pack- 



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horfes, in carrying provifions for their indolent hufbands, and io 

 do all the mofh laborious drudgery in the plantations. 



The hair is 



in the greater part of them woolly and frizzled. 



Their ears and 



nofes perforated, for the infertion of large rings in the one, and of 



fticks or ftones in th 



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ther. 



Their compl 



footy 



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harfti 



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k bone and fac 



broad 



and the whole 



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