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countenance highly difagreeable. Their limbs are {lender, though 

 v/ell fhaped, and the belly conftrided by a firing to fuch a degree, as 



no European could bear without the greatell inconvenience 



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tals are wraoDed in and tucked up, in the fame manner as at 





Tanna and New Caledonia. One of their arms is ornamented by 

 a bracelet fixed on it when young, and which therefore, can never 

 after be removed in grown perfons. I obferved feveral among thefe 

 people, who were very hairy all over the body, the back not ex- 

 cepted; and this circumilance I alfo obferved in Tanna and New 



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Caledonia. They are nimble, lively, and reftlefs ; fome of them 



feem to be ill-natured and mifchievous i 



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a friendly and good difpoiition. They feem to loVe joy and merri- 

 ment ; mufic, fongs, and dances. Though their poifoned arrov/s 

 had no efFedl upon our dogs, I am however, not yet clear that they 

 are entirely harmlefs; if fo the natives would not have fo 

 anxioufly witheld our hands, whenever we wanted to try the points 



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what reafon they {liould take fo much trouble in fmearing and 

 preferving therefmous fubflance on the honey points pf thefe arrows^ 



Quiros who faw the fame nation, likewife fufpeded their arrows 

 to be poifoned. I am therefore apt to fufped them to be very 

 cruel and implacable enemies. I cannot at the fam.e time omit to 

 do themjuftice, in obferving that they were not deflitute of prin- 



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