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PROGRESS refided here at different times. The people were clad in the fame- 



F 



manner as in the former place -, their habitations, efpecially on 

 their hippas or ftrong holds, were better,, cleanlier, and^ lined on the- 



r 



infide with reeds i they had no plantations, but they knew the; 



OF SA- 

 VAGES. 



names of Ti 



d Goomalla^ which the inhab 



of 



pical illes give to the Arum ejculentum and. the Convolvulus Batatas.. 

 This, in my opinion, evidently proves that they were defcended: 



from 



ibe. who had 



d who had loft 



gled:ed 



this way of fupporting themfelves, either bee aufe they found 

 greater plenty of iifli,. and animal food ; or becaufe they fled their 

 country in fo precipitate a manner, that they could not take any 

 roots with them ; or laftly, from mer-e fupihenefs and indolence ; 



for wefaw them sat fern roots, a very infipid, coarfe, and wretched 

 food. Whatever may be the real caufe, the climate would certainly 

 allow of planting eddoes 2>iid potatoes, being in 41°. 5'.' South latir 



u 



tude j and it is evident that the natives were degenerated and de- 

 bafed from a more perfed and more happy ilate. The inhabi- 



tants of the Northern iile, who came off to u:r,, had better boatsj 

 ^nd were clad in finer garments -, but we could, not.make many obfer- 

 vations on their fituation, as- we faw them only in a tranfitory 

 manner; hov/ever, the publi/hed accounts of the preceding 



voyage, and thofe which I was favoured 



wi 



Capt. Cook 



agree in this, that they had very extenlive, regular,, well 



d plantations, inclofed in very firm and 



fences,., made 



of 



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