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PRiNci- royal family, have likewife grants of land. The chiefs of the pro- 



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vinces, as well as the inferior Arees, have their demefnes culti- 



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vated by Toutous, who arc obliged to raife- fruits and roots, fcf 

 the neceffary food of their Aree ; to fifli, to build houfes and ca- 



noes, to make cloth, to work their boats in war and peace, and ta 

 do every thing they bid them : and for this fervice they have the 

 overplus of fruit and iifh ; which latter, the chief commonly dif- 

 tributes among all his vafTals, very impartially, if they catcb a 

 eonfiderable quantity at once. The M^nahoune, his brethren, and 

 offspring, cultivat-e the ground, which is granted to them 3 and I 

 cannot fay, that I ever obferved Toutous attached to- them. In war 

 time, the great chief, with the advice of his relations, and of the 

 chiefs of the provinces, who feem to have great influence in pub- 



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lie affairs, orders an armament to be prepared ; and as the fliores 

 only are inhabited, the attack commonly is made by fea : for that 

 reafon they have numbers- of war-canoes, built and laid up under 

 large fheds, which are immediately fitted out upon any fuch re- 

 quilition, from the Lord Paramount 5 each inferior chief and Ma- 

 nahoune is again either maffcr of fuch a war-canoe, or he does fer- 

 vice on board, of one of them, as a warrior, and the Toutous are 

 ^employed in paddling and working them. The chiefs of pro- 

 vinces regulate every thing in their diflridts, and adminifter juf- 



tice, their authority being as great as that of the king. On extraordi- 



nary 



