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THE 



"RiNCi- full of natives 



coming oit wi 



ith coGO-nuts, bananas, fugar-canes-. 



'PLES OF 

 SOCIE- 



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£{h, &c. and all wanted to exchange thefe refrefhments for iron 



xrrying aloud /xerro ! hierro I which is the Spanifh name for iron, 



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and in its pronunciation not very different from yuree, the Tahei- 

 tean word for the fame , and as t4ie Ladrones as well as Taheitee, 

 or at leaft fome neighbouring illes, were firft feen by Spaniards, there 

 is very'little doubt but the name of j^'2/r^^ is originally meant for 

 kierro. The lofs of one of Roggewyn's fhips in 1772, on the low 



iiland of O-Anna, gave thefe iflanders again a frefh fupply of 



iron . 



The anchors loft by Mr. de Bougainville at 0-Hidea were 



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afterwards taken up by the natives, and the king of Taheitee fent 



one as a rare 



pref 



to Op 



king of Bora-bora. Laftly the 



Engliih imported fuch quantities of iron-tools, efpecially hatchets, 

 chilTels, plains, faws, gimlets, and fpikes and nails of all dimen- 

 fions, that this commodity will not eafily comfe into difufe among 



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Aem, and is flill lefs likely to be entirely forgotten. Efpecially 



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remarkable for preferving the fmallefl 



landed 



as all thefe nations are 



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pieces of iron for many years : thus for inftance, when we 

 at 'Tonga- tabu one of the natives fold a very fmall nail < 



arefully 



faftenedina handle of hard wood, and tied to it by firings of coco- 



is nail was undoubtedly left by Taefman, who was 



jTut-core. 



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there in 1643, and confequently had been preferved 130 years, 



.iind is now lodged amongfl other curiofities in the Britifh Mufeum. 



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