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pled land, or have opportunities to live by the chace, or by fifhing-, 

 they conftantly refufe to provide for their fubfiilence by a laborious 



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TIES. toilfome cultivation. 



However, in fmall iflands, where the 



1 



numbers of people are too inconfiderable for affording mutual 

 fecurity and alTiilance, or for forming a powerful fociety, and where 



on varied according to the 



th 



no 



cha 



ther for cultivat 



difference of foil and expofures, or for extenfive plantations, there 



likewife 



peA fo well regulated foe 



as in 



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ifles o 



f a tolerable fize, and of various expofures and foils. 



It is 



therefore in my opinion evident, 

 ifles, when all the other circumflan 



that 



the largeft of the tropical 

 concur, muft be the hap- 



of them is of too g 



piefl and moil civilized, as none 



Otahcitee and the neighbouring Society ifles 

 nearer to happinefs than any ot 



this point 



nations we met with 



They 



greater variety of food and in g 



abundance, th 



any 



of the other nations. 



Their drefs 



likewife more varied 



a 



kind of refinement this, which moft of the other nations 

 entirely want, or at leaft in a very imperfed manner poffefs 



ther 



Th 



hab 



clean and roomy, and thofe of the better fort 

 people are even neat and elegant, as far as thefe advantages may 

 carried in its firfl rude beginning. 



They have ideas of many things, which 



of 



be 



never 



occurred to other 



nations of the South Sea, their intelledual faculties. 



enlarg 



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ed by 



inllruaion 



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