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inftilling the principles of true morality and virtue into their progress 



breafls, or of communicating to them notions of a well regu- 



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latcd government, and diffufmg throughout a numerous nation, 

 that fpirit of charity, attachment, and difmterelled love cf the com- 



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munity, which ought to glow in the breail: of every reafonable 

 member of fociety, had neither time nor leifure for fuch an un- 

 dertaking in the few days of our abode among them, efpecially as 

 none had a thorough knowledge of the feveral languages, and as 



each had a different purfuit to attend, which had been dele- 

 gated to him by his fuperiors, when this exoedition was fet 



OF SA- 

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Food, and the Method of Procurhig it, by FijJnng, Fowling, 



Hunting, and the wild fpontaneous Fruits. — Savage or barbarous 

 State of a fnflll Number of Men. — Origin of CannibaUfm. — 



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Means employed by Providence of improving Human Societies'. , 



Sed primum pofitum fit, nofmet ipfos commendatos efle nobis, primamquc eS natura 



hanc habere appctitionem, ut confervemus nofmet ipfos. 



M. TulUus Cicero cle Fbi. Bo7u & Mai. 4. 



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AVING traced the general outline of the real condition of origin 

 the nations we faw in the courfe of our voyage, and en- 



OF SOCI- 

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deavoured to affign the true caufes of the remarkable difFeren 



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