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tli€ South Seas j and this feems to be, in my opinion, the charader causes 

 of the nation, or tribe, from which they are. defcended. The 

 more VVeilern tropical illes have inhabitants with lefs- prominent 



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and broader lips, which again muH he 



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referred to the original tribe from whence they are derived 



The laps of the ears are certainly cut and enlarged by conflantly 

 keeping a fugar-cane leaf fcrolled up in this hole, in Eafter-Ifland, 



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New-Caledonia, and partly in Tanna. The inhabitants of Tonga 

 Tabu, and the Friendly-Ifles, enlarge the laps of the ears like- 

 wife, butmthout making an incifion, and have only two perforations 

 in them, through which they thrull horizontally a fmall flick, of tli 

 thicknefs of a ftrong goofe-quilL The greater part of the fame 

 nation v/ant the two firfl joints of one, and fometimes both the 

 little fingers, which: they cutoff as. marks of their grief, for dec.eafed 

 parents or relations. 



The inhabitants of O-Talieitee and the Society-Ifles, are cir- 

 cumcifed ; but properly fpeaking, a part of the prepuce is not cut 

 off, but a round fmooth flick being thruil into it,, it is flit through 



the upper part, with a bamboo, to which they have given a 

 (harp edge 3 and then the parts are. kept divided,, that they m?,y 

 not cover the glans again. 



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The breafls of the women of O-Taheitee, the Society- lilesj.. 

 Marq^uefas, and Friendly- Ifles, are not fo flaccid and pendulous^, 





