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tlie more civilized Malay tribes, mixed with the aboriginals, and 

 the harfhnefs of the climate, the roughnefs of the wild woody 



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country, together with its great extent, contributed to preferve 



cannibalifm, and to form a 



coal 



of cufloms, wher 



many 



points 



f 



wer 



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,lly loft, though the language was 



iland, wh 



taTcen from the new-comers, and preferved blended with fome words 

 of the aboriginal tribe. 'Savage-iJIand, whofe inhabitants we found 

 v€ry tawny and ferocious, might perhaps be 

 the Malay tribes have not hitherto been able to fubdue -, nay, as the 

 inhabitants of Tan n- A, were likewife acquainted with a language 

 totally different from theirs, called the Footoona language, or" 

 that of Irronan, which we fouad to correfpond with the 

 dialea: fpoken at the Friendly-iflands, it feems from thence to fol- 

 low, that the Malay tribes ftill endeavour to fpread, and to fubdue 

 the aboriginal tribes in 



the 



South-Sea iiles. Thefe hints 



it is to be hoped, may induce fome future navigators more care- 

 felly to examine the languages, manners, cuftoms, temper, habit 



and colour of body of the inhabitants of 



various South-Sea 



lies 



order ftill better to trace the origin and migrati 



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thefe nations ^ and to throw a ftill greater light on this intereftmg 

 part of the Hiftory of Man. 



It is however remarkable, that the nearer we approach to the 



and the 



Weftern or Friendly-iflands, the greater is the rciped. 



more 



