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Beads of glafs, fince our feveral expeditions to the South Seas, 

 very common; as incredible quantities have been exchanged in 

 thefe Seas for coco-nuts, yams, and bread-fruit. It is however, 

 remarkable, that in O-Taheitee, thofe which were white and 

 tranfparent were preferred. In the Friciadly Iflands ; the black beads 

 were in high efleem ; and green ear-rings, and green or red glafs 

 buttons v/ere moll eagerly fought after in New-Zeeland. Each of 



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thefe nations therefore had a peculiar .taile. At Tcmjia the cafuarina- 

 wood foj clubs wa.s brought from In'omangay hatchets made of 

 black folid lava came from Anatto?}!, and thofe of white fjiell 



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So that each 



y gives up its fuperil 



exchange for other articles, ^vhich are lefs common, and deemed 

 either really neceffary, or an improvement, or an article of 



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wealth and the opulence of individuals in 



at O-Taheitee has raifed many perfons from a low rank, and from 



poverty to affluence and a higher clafs ; for when a man at Ta- 



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heitee had acquired fome wealth, he could keep it for his own ufe. 



was permitted to difpofe of 



fuch a manner as he pleafed 



This likewlfe was obferved atEafler-iflandjtheMarquefas, New-Ze 



land, the New-Hebrides and New-Caledonia : but at the Friendly- 



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