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REMARKS 



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THE 



ORIGIN lie found Immenfe ilores of dry fifli, fern-roots, and other roots, 



in houfes filled folely with thefe provifions. It feems therefore, 

 to me, by no means probable, ihat a nation perfectly convinced 



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.of the neceffity of providing againftthe feafon of diftrefs, and fo 



OF SOCI- 

 ETIES. 



colleding flores of eatables 



^ery careful and ,a£tive in 



-neverthelefs have been induced by necelTity and hung 



fhould 



to 



-eat the 



fes of thofe llain 



battle 



Nay 



we heard from 



eat thofe, who die a natural death 



were 



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the natives, that they never 



^but either fink them in the fea, or bury them under ground 



neceflity the true caufe of this cuflom, why fhould they not feaft 



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cipon the dead who formed the fame community with them ? 

 But it will be objected, that hunger may be allowed fo far to fiifle 



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.all fentimental feelings of humanity, that they might fuffer them- 

 felves to fatisfy its cravings upon the corfe of a llain iot, but that 

 it will never carry them fo far as to feed upon the flefh of thofe 



who lived in the fame fociety-with them. How fpecious foever 

 this objedion may be, it never can perfaade me that hunger will 



make thefe nice diflindiions 



peopl 



who have not thofe 



tender, humane feelinirs and 



fc> 



of which we 



pable 



in fo highly civilized a jftate, with a refined education, and prmci- 

 pies infinitely fuperior to theirs, * 



But 



^ If the account o-lven in the life of Pierre Viaud is to be credited ; for the credibility o* 



■S.vlilchj there are the greatcftreafonSj founded upon the jo'nt tcllimonies of feveral reipecta 



table 



pcrions, 



