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IS ilill better, they actually fhew it on many occafions. I have princi 



{qqr a man eating a fmall proportion of bread-fr 



other food 



and 



thelefs fharing this 



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out amongll feveral of his 



brethren, whilfl 



would admit of divilion. The folicitude of 



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their chiefs, to flrike a good bargain for their fubjeds, when they 

 brought fruit, iifh, or hogs to market, is likewife another proof of 

 this alTertion ; nor can I omit the affiflance they generally gave to 



one another .; the deteilation in which the better fort of people held 

 dl the thieves and robbers; the flriking increafe of happinefs we 



obferved 



0-Tahe 



were, at our fecond arrival, after an ab 



fence of eight months, owing to the encouragement and minute 

 infpedlion of the fituation of every individual family under 0-Tu, 



the refig 



lation bf the command of the fleet to T-Owha, made by 



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O-Tu, and the .readinefs of T-Owha to undertake that expedi- 

 tion, though ill of the gout j the wifdom and public fpirit with 

 which they politely declined the affiftance offered them by Capt. 

 Cook for conquering the revolted ifland of Imeo. All thefe parti- 

 culars give me the higheft opinion of their frue patriotifm, and 

 noble attachment to the weal of their country. This great maxim 



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is the firfl germ of all noble fecial feelings and fentlments : it af- 

 figns to the various relations of man their true valour, and bids him 

 ad in confequence of each of them ; it prefcribes the fi mplicity 

 and unity of principles, and the harmony of means for ading upon 



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