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M A R IC S ON T'H E 



M.'A-NNERS with the winds and feafons, the names of the flars,. and their riring. 



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and fetting, and a knowledge of the. Etuation of a confiderable 

 number of illands in thofe tropical feas 5: the art of navigating by 

 the fun in the day time, and by^ the moon. and {lars in. the night :: 



mber and names of day 



d of 1 



y^ 



Th 



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fe of their, memories 



g 



the. various 



names expreffing thefe ideas,, and of other.mental faculties confirm- 

 ino-by their own experience the truth of the phenomena. 



commu 



ives them a turn 



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which 



nicated to them by their parents and teachers, 



and as it were a prediledion for the examination of truth 



when applied to the purpofes of. common. focial life, gives a flrong^ 



tindure of honefly and candour, which is mofl: particularly 



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neceffary invall human, tranfadions.. But if we fhould require proofs 

 of their humanity, we need only to. quote the navigators ; in 

 Refolutionv. Adventure, Eiideavour, Dolphin, 



the 



and Mr. de 



as fo many monuments of their 



Bougainville, at Taheitee, 



humanity and friendly difpofition : they provided us with refrefh- 



ments and vaft quantities of hogs r they affiiled us when. we. were 

 cften unattended a great way up in their country -, they vied with 



each other in fhewing 



marks of their kindnefs and hofpitality 



nvited us to fit down in the cooling fhade of the 



houfes 



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ru 



bbed 



-^nd chafed our wearied limbs, offered us a delicate dinner, prepared 



from the beil of their fruits 



undertook to become the bearers of 



our 



