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PLES OF 



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more precarious in an ifle, which only yields, fpontaneoufly, the 

 aeceffaries for a certain determined number of inhabitants ; they 



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TIES. therefore foon found themfelves under the neceffity of devifing fomc 



method of fupplying the necelTary food, principally by cultivating 



the wild produce of which they formerly 



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thofe plants, 



lived. They began regularly to plant coco-nut-palms, bananas, 



South- Sea apples, yamb9es, and bread-fruit trees, together with 

 die yam, the fweet potatoe, the two kinds of eddoes, the tacca and 

 ihe fugar-cane, Thefe plantations being the work of the induftry 



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and forefight of fome individuals, gave them a right to reap their 

 produdtionsj and as their example was foon followed by people 

 equally folicitous for their prefervation, this method of raifing a 

 fufficiency of food by induftry and labour, became more univerfal 5 

 and when they found that the right of reaping the fruit of their 



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own induftry, was fometimes invaded by the indolent, the power- 



r 



ful, and the defperate, they began to form affociations for the de- 



fence of their pla 



on which their very exiftence de- 



pended; they confequently flipulated, firll among themfelves, not 

 to deftroy one anothers plantations, to defend them jointly againft 

 the violence of others, and to give one another mutual afiillance; 



this manner the plai 



were 



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ncreafed. extended, and 



manner furrounded by thofe of 



look upon the land occupied 



then 



ery 



beg 



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or roots, as having a 



more 



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