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iiraggling families are» in my opinion, to be ranked higher in the origin 



fcale of human beings. 



There is however one circumstance already alluded to, which feems 



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degrade them 



the odious and cruel cuftom of eatino: thofe 



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killed in their freq 



feuds 



d petty wars. This has 



hGQn reprefented by a late ingenious writer, * as Griginally intro- 

 duced among the New-Zeelanders, by diftrefs and hunger 5 but 

 I cannot help diiTenting from his opinion : for I did not find that 

 thefe nations ever are fo much diflrefled; they have prudence 

 enough to provide in the proper feafon, ftores of all kinds : whea 

 they catch more fiih than they can eat, they carefully dry, and lay 

 them up ; their women go frequently up the hills, which are 



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an immenfe extent with fern, and d 



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which they likewife dry, and preferve as a food to whick they 



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may have recourfe, when neither fifh nor any other kind of eatables^ 



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are to be procured ^ We faw great quantities of diefe provifions 

 in their huts, and frequently found them employed in preparing 



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both fifh and fern- roots, for the bad feafon. We were likewife 



told by Capt. Crozet, the friend and companion of the brave but 

 unfortunate Capt.. Marion j that when he got poiTeffion of the: 



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hippah or fortrefs of the New-Zeelanders, in the Bay of lilands,. 



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