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THE 



oil. 



fatisfy the g 



demand for 



and as on 



the 



■ary 



the natives of Bora-b 



and O-Tahaw, cannot 



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adure fuck 



p r of u fi 



and variety of cloth as they do at O-Tah 



whei 



•e 



the paper-mulberry-tree is much cultivated -, there are perfons who 

 every fear undertake a voyage from Taheitee to Tahaw and 

 Bora-bora, in order to barter great quantities of cloth, for joints 



il. The Low-Iilands 



r, which the native'^ 



of thick bamboo-reeds filled with 



have a race of dog 



th long wh 



ha 



s 



ernploy in fringing their breaft- plates or war gorgets ; and thefe 



low iflanders 



ultivate the mulberry 



on their fandy 



barren ledges of lands, which includes their fait lagoons ; there- 

 fore thefe reciprocal wants, form a kind of commerce between the 



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inhabitants of the hi^h and low iflands, and a mutual exchange of 



fuperflui 



The red feathers of parrots are 



»yed in orna- 



ments for their warriors, being fixed 



at the end of the taffels, 



which they wear like queues, and likewife in fmall bundles tied 

 together with coco-nut-core, which they make ufe of in order to 

 fix their attention during their prayers. Th? O -Taheitee parrot 

 has but few and very dirty red feathers, but more to the Weft 

 are iflands, which have fine parroquets remarkable for beautiful 

 ;red feathers. One of thefe ifles is low, and dellitute oi inhabitants, 

 at about ten days fail from O-Taheitee and is called Whennua- 



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OQRA the Land of red feathers^ to which the people from the 



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