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of their lands, which the manaho 



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fills in the poireillon princi 



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of their famil 



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eas, the polTeffions of their chiefs, as well 



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as the royal deniefnes, are under the infped:ion and cultivation 

 . of their own toutous : they feed the hogs and dogs of their 



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mailers, which conflitute their greatefl riches ;. they cultivate 



the banana 



of the bread-fruit and appl 



fugar-canes, yams, eddoes, taccas, potatoes, and other ufeful 

 vegetables ; they plant the mulberry-trees, and manufadure their 

 bark; lay up flores of mahei or fower-pafle, and provide the 

 indolent chiefs with food and raiment. It appears from hence, 

 that the real wealth and opulence of their chiefs depends upon 

 the number of toutous, as well as upon the extent of demefne they 



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are polTelTed of, ' And that the toutou feems to be a kind of property 

 of the tribe of chiefs, alienable according to the pleafure of the 

 mailer, I colledied from the following circumilance -, as foon as 

 our friend Maheine had found his relations on O-Taheitee, he 

 was prefented by them with a boy about 13 or 14 years old, called 



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Foe-tea-tea, who became to all intents and purpofes his toutou. 



mailer 



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and was immediately remarkably attached to his new 



his friends on board the ihip. 



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We have already enumerated hogs and dogs among the riches 



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of the natives of Taheitee, to which we added goats in 1773, that 



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