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PRINCI- 

 PLES OF 



<t).NION, 



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REMARKS 



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T H E 



very reafon is infinitely fup 



being founded on p 



ciples of kindnefs and benevolence, and on that primitive fimpli- 

 city, which bears always the ftamp of perfedl undegenerated na- 



ture. 



However, upon comparing every circumflance more minutely, as 

 the Taheiteans allow themfelves to have formerly been cannibals, 

 and likewife as their chiefs, Manahounes and warriors, are all of a 

 -fairer colour than the Toutous -, it might mot perhaps be incon- 



of the 



fiftent to fuppofe, that the firft and aboriginal inhabitants 



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South-Sea ifles, v/ere of the tribe of the Papuas and people from 

 New- Guinea, and its nighbourhood, and fuch as we found at Mai- 



licollo, Tann 



and the New-Hebrides, and therefore wer 



like 



them men 



•eaters. It is probable, that either by accident, or on 



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:purpofe, the ancient Malays of the Peninfula, o£ Malacca, gra- 

 dually fpread among the illes of the Indian feas ; firfl over Borneo, 

 then to the Philippines -, from whence they extended over the La- 



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drone illands, the New-Carolines, and Pefcadores -, and laftly, they 

 removed to the Friendly-illands, the Society-illands, the Marquefas 



and Eafter-illand, to the Eaftward 



d to New-Zeeland 



the 



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Southward. This migrati 



feems to have been fucceffive 



and 



perhaps feveral centuries elapfed, from the firft rem 



of the Ma 



lay 



Borneo, to the arrival of thefe tribes at New-Zeeland, and 



Eafter-illand. In each ftation they acquired a new tindure of 



manners 



