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mare numerous are external marks of fubjed:ion fliewn by the princi- 



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common people to their chiefs and kings. In Eailer-ifland, and 

 the Marquefas, we obferved hardly any difference between the fub- 

 jc(ft and chief, if we except a more confpicuous drefs, fome attend- 

 ants and the name of Areckee or A-ka-hal. In O-Taheitee, and 

 the Society-illes, the lower ranks of people, by way of. refpccSt, 



flrip off their upper garment, in the prefence of their Aree-rahai. 



But at Tonga Tabu and Horn-Island, * -the common people 

 {hew their great chief or Latoo the greateff refped imaginable, 

 by proftrating themfelves before him, and by putting his foot en 

 their necks. In the Ladrone illands-, the Tamolas or nobles are like- 

 wife highly revered, and none of the common people dare -come 

 near them, for fear of defiling them.f Thefe circumftances in my 

 opinion, prove, that the natives of the South-Sea -iiles chan^red feme 

 of their manners, and laid afide part of that iliffnefs, formality and 

 humiliating refped paid to their chiefs in proportion, as they re- 

 moved from the country, which gave birth to their firfl: anceftor^ ; 

 and it is by this mixture of manners 



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nhab 



of Ta 



heitee have arrived at that happy mean which affigns the juft bound 



s 



of prerogative to each rank of people, and thus places the true princi 

 pies of happinefs on a firm and foiid bafis. The kino- has a cer 



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* See Mr. Dalrymples Colleaioii of Voyages to the South-Sea, vol. H. p. 41, -5 

 i Dcs Broffes Hilbire des Navigations aux Terres auftrales, torn. ii. p. 484, 499, 



