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CAUSES devoured by the chiefs, but mufl reil contented v/ith the mofe 



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homely vegetable fire, and think themfelves fortunate, if they 



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:catch fome lilli, or colled fome wretched fmall fhell fiHi, and even 

 blubbers. In -the Marquefas animal food is more fcarce in pro- 

 portion; nor are the iflands upon tha whole, overflocked with other 

 eatables : for which reafon we found, that though the natives were 



fmall 



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few 



however, if any, were fo tall and fo athletic 

 the Society liles, and above all, the difference between xA.rees 



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and Towtows was not fo llriking. In the Friendly Ides, 

 abundance.of vegetables is great, becaufe private property has been 

 the caufe of a higher degree of cultivation ; and animal food feems 



to be plentiful : here hov/ever, the difparity in the fize 

 of Arees and Towtows is not fo great as in the Society liles. 

 In New Zeeland, the inhabitants are in general well provided with 

 fifh, and they are not without extenlive plantations of roots in the 

 "Northern ifle ; nor do they feem famiflied or ilinted, as the greater 

 part are tall and llrongly built. The iiles of Tanna and New Cale- 



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donia have plenty of vegetable food, though little of the animal 



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kind 5 nay, in New Caledonia, they had before our arrival, neither 



does 



nor 



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but the extenlive reefs furrounding their iile, 



afford them great plenty of fiih : this circumffance no doubt, 



contributed to the formation of their fbrong and tall bodies. 



Laflly, the Mallicolefe feem to have plantations of ail kinds of 



fruit 



