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CAUSES the moil celebrated among them. The former are the moiT 



antient inhabitants, and the latter are certainly related to the various 

 tribes of Malays, v/ho liad over-run all the Eafh India illands befor-e 

 the arrival of the Europeans in thofe feas. Their language is 

 likevv^ife in many inftances related to- that of the Malays. * The 



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ifle of Formofa or Tai-ovan has likev^ife in its interior hilly parts, 

 a fet of brown, frizzly haired, broad faced inhabitants ;. but the 

 fhores, efpecially thofe to the North, are occupied by the Chinefe, 

 v/ho differ even in language from the former.. The ifles of New 

 Guinea,. New Britain, and Nova Hibernia have certainly black 

 complexioned inhabitants, whofe manners,^ cuiloms, habit, form, 

 and charader, correfpond very much with the inhabitants of the 

 South Sea iflands belonging to the fecond race in Nova Caledonia, 

 Tanna,. and Mallicollo y and thefe blacks in New-Guinea, are 



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probably related to thofe in the Moluccas and Philippines. The 

 Ladrones, and the new difcovered Cai-oline lilands^ contaia a fet 



of people very much related to our firft race. Their fize, colour, 

 habit, manners, and cufloms, feem- flrongly to indicate this 

 affinity 3 and they are according to the account of fome vv^riters, f 



nearly 



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Relaclon de las Iflas Malucas. Kava, 



Hlftorlcos de la Monarchia dc China, Gemel/I Carrcri il giro del inondo. Fr. Diego Bcrgano 

 Bocabulario de Pampango en Romance, Manila, 1732, fol. p. j^an de Nocedl v el P- 



Mar 



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Manila 1754. fol, 

 1700. i2mo.. 



