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occafions : for inflance, in forming friendlhips and making peace, 

 in announcing war and burying their dead, which laftfometimes are 

 funk, it feems, in the fea. ' The natives of New-Zeeland, build 



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fome of their houfes and cottages with an elegance and neatnefs, 

 which makes them far fuperior to 



the wretched hovels of 



all 



inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego : for they are well covered on 

 fides with thatch, and the infides we found lined with reeds, fo 

 that they really had an appearance of neatnefs ; and we fometimes 



faw feveral huts feparated from the reft 



which I fuppofe was done with a view to fcr 



from the raging winds, and to fhelter their fires, which 



nclofures of thatch 



them ftill more 



are com- 



monly m 



ade at the entrance of their huts. 



Their boats are 



ftronger than thofe of Tierra del Fuego, and not without tafte in 

 their ornaments, nor without contrivance in their whole ftrudiure 



and fhape, which, with the dexterous management of their paddl 



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them an eafy and fwift 



Their drefs 



covers 



their nudities, but affords them fhelter againft the inclemen 



of 



their climate, which is lefs rigorous in winter 



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that of T 



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del Fue^o in fummer : it is likewife woven with neatnefs, encom- 



brown 



ITed with borders, worked 



patterns of black 



and white 



.and fometimes 



ornamented on its corners with pieces of dogs-fkin, 



over with patches of white and black 



red all 



4o^s-lkin, 



difpofed in regular 



compartments 



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They wear over 



their 



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