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ORIGIN tlier fubdued by: lum and his adherents ;• or that they found it their 



iotercil", upon tlieir own account, to acknowledge his authority, to- 

 become his fiibjefts upon certain- conditions, and thus to form one- 



large poh deal body, for- greater fecurity, and ^defence ;. the better^ 

 r.esfulations, a fecurity both of perfon and property,. . and a. more im- 



partial adminiftration of ijjflice, mentioned in the fame account 



prove beyond, difpute, tl^at..from the violent, ftate of cannibalifm,-. 

 the New-Zeelanders will,.foon..arrivc in. their, moil populous diflrids, 

 to a more fettled and more happy. flate. . For though the fubjeds for 

 Teira.too IHU eat men, this CBftom is rather kept up on account 

 of the vicinity of fuch tribes as ilill retain the fame; cuflom, other- 

 wife their more improved fituatic)n would hardly. admit of it. 

 *' Dent que ccetera animmitia in fuo geiiere probe, d.giint : con 



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** gregari.videTniis &. Jiare cojitra diJfimiUa:- Lec::um ferita$ 



" inter fe non dimicat : 



ferpentum •7norJus non petit ferpenfes 



" ne maris q^iiidenv b'elluce ac pifces, nifi im diverfi 



genera 



^^ fcevtunt : at hercule I homini plurima ex homine funt mala 



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It IS either the fault of fome tribes, who are wanton, quarrelfome, 

 and overbearing, when they are driven by more powerful nations, 

 to fuch a defperate fituation,. that they become degenerate, and their 



offspring finks to the lowefi: cond 



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kind ; or it is rather owinsf to cruel 



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be in tailed on man- 

 accident, that they 



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