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manners and cufloms varied by climate, and the particular Htuatioj 

 of each land which they gradually occupied ; and being no doubt 



ippofed by the firft aboriginal inhab 



cod 



great deal, of 



bloodfhed, labour, and time, before, they could entirely fubdue 



In the large iilands, Borneo, Lugon, Maghindanao, and 



them. 



fbme of the Moluccas, they were 



quered, but retired 



the interior mountainous parts ; and are flill exifting and known. 



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under the names of Byajos, Negrillos, Zambales, Allfoories, &c. 

 &c. In the Friendly and Society-iflands, the aboriginal inhabi-- 

 tants were fubdued, and became Toutous. Their more polifhed. 



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and more civilized conquerors, eftabliflied a mild and humane kind 



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of government, w^herein they introduced the oriental or Malay-- 

 feudal iyftem,, and endeavoured to wxan their new fubieds from 

 that cruel cannibalifm,. which generally prevailed among all the 

 aboriginal black tribes of the South- Sea. In this benevolent 



and 



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name 



humane undertaking they at lafl fo far fucceeded, that the 

 only, and a faint, tradition of the exigence of fuch a cuilom in 

 O-Taheitee, are prefer ved. This hypothecs likewife accounts for 

 the various traditions of the Taheiteans, who know, for inftance, in 



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eir 



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hbourhood, an ifle called Manmi 



pied 



men 



which 



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according to this conjedure, is a proof of its be 



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inhabited by the aboriginal black 



of people, who 



far 



we know, all cannibals 



In New-Zeeland, I am of opinion^ thg't 



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