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with propriety wifli for them, and of the progrefs they may be 

 expected to have made from the little intercourfe with Europeans. 

 I have been frequently afked, what improvements and progrefs 

 in civilization the inhabitants of the illands in the South SeS 

 appeared to me to have made fmce Europeans came among them. 

 A few yeai's in' regard to a nation, are a few moments In a man's 

 life, a man may learn very ufeful things materially afFedling his 

 fituation in life in a few hours -, but it would be ' next to impoffible 

 to point out in his charader, his mode of living, his converfation, 

 and his adions a few hours after this acquifition, the advantages he 

 can or will derive from thence ; this holds likewife in regard to 

 nations ; a .few years cannot bring on a material change among 



them. 



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carried hogs and fowls to New-Zeeland, and dogs 



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and pigs to New- Caledonia, dogs to Tanna, Mallicollo, and the 



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to O-Taheitee : thefe animals will 



doubt in time caufe a material change in the way of living of thefe 



but as. we could give no more than one 



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and a few of tlie other fpecies of animals, it will require a fucceliion 



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■of years before they can multiply, and become fo numerous-, that 



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,every inhabitant may have feveral of them, and thus be enabled to 



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