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Among the chiefs, inftances of matrimonial infidelity 



with, which feem theref 



as in Europe, to be 



prerogative attached to rank and dignity. The natives told us; 

 that adultery is puniflied v^^ith death among them, but we .faw no 

 inftances of itj and thofe on the part of the hufband which came 



to my knowledge-, were no further punifhed; 



that the juftly 



exafperated wife, Juno like, treated her hufband, with all the flow 



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of bad language Ihe v/as miftrefs of, and that £he-in great hafte and 

 wrath imparted fome-boxes on the ear to the fair one, whom .ihe 

 found defirous of encroaching upon her prerogative rights.- 



Thefe happy ifles have almoft 



y article 



flary for the 



fupply of th^ir- wants ; neverthelefs their manners are already fo far 

 poliihed, that they like to be poffelled of fome articles chiefly of 



ornaments and luxury, which they cannot meet with in their 



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own ifle, or at leafl:, not in fuch plenty as in others fituated in - the 

 neighbourhood. Bora-bora, andO-Tahaw, are both well provided 

 with coco-nut-palms, from which they manufaclure an oil, well 



known In the Eafl Indies : th 



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neighbourhood, ufe this oil perfumed, , by ■ means of various 



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odoriferous plants, and aromatic v^oods^, as an article of luxury 

 to ftain and to perfume their cloth, and even their hair, and fome- 



As the coco-nut-trees are not fo plentiful in 



times their bodies. 



O-Taheitee as to enable the inhabitants to prepare a quantity of. 



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