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MANNERS ;themfelves an 



inexhauftible fourae of -enjoyment, T)eeaufe bene 



fadions of an incredible variety may be '^eflowed upon an almoft 



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number of fell 



and thus wc fee the 



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■principles of all rational human beings, ought to be candour and 

 -HUMANITY 5 which alone are capable of giving to all their ideas, 



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defires, and acflions, the true diredion towards real, lafling happi- 



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and 



fe their nature to that exalted dignity^ for which 



■they were originally intended. 



The tropical nations of the South-Seas confidered in this point 

 of view, feem to be deficient neither in candour y nor in humanity. 

 For it is impoffible to defcribe the inquifitive curiofity of thefe 

 people relative to our country, government, religion, and the 



by which 



curious manufadures were carried 



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^mean fuch as fell under their eyes 



and could be underftood 



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I was obliged 



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to them the diiierence between 



our 



ftuffs made of wool, filTc, cotton, and linen; by telling 

 them the firfl was made of the hair of a hog with teeth on the 

 forehead, (for thus they called our flieep when they firil faw them) 

 the fecond, I explained to he the thread of a caterpillar 5 the 

 third, I lliewed to be a fpecies of their cotton called E-Favat 

 OX Gojjypiumreligiofumy Linn, which is found in their ifles, and the 

 laft I obferved to be a kind of thread of a plant or graf§ ; and they 

 were ail veiy attentive when I ufed to draw and twifl fome threads of 



Z their 



