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acly produced a coupl 



f kids, at our return to TaHe 



in the following year 3 but it is remarkable, that thefe few domeftic 

 animals, were not even common over all the South Sea ifles. la 

 all the low iflands they have dogs, but no hogs y at the FriendK- 

 Iflands and Tanna, they had hogs, Hutno d6gs- at New-Zeeland 

 they had no hogs, and at New-Caledonia they had neither ho 

 nor dogs.. We- gave at Amflerdam and Tanna the iirft dogs; at 

 New-Zeeland the firft hogs and fowls, and at New-Caledonia w 



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left a couple of dogs, and- another of pigSi They mull formerly 



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have had dogs at Arafterdam, becaufe they knew the animal, and 



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were acquainted with 



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but have loil the fpe 



as it fliould feem, by fome accident; Though both the forts of 

 quadrupeds which are found in the South Seas, are very prolifici 

 thrive in the fine climate amazingly well, and foon come to 

 maturity, they were however, not in flich abundance, that every 

 family could ufe them for common food; but the bulk of the 

 nation was obliged to fubfift chiefly on vegetables, the produce of 



duftry and moderate kbour 



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umflance I find 



the works of nature> 



a veflige of the infinite wifdom purfued in 



and her general conllitution, and trace therein a part of the grand 



plan, which has no other aim than the greatefl perfe(5tion of the 



whole. 



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