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MANNERS by thefe charaderillics was a more difficult talk,, becaufe the features 



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were fo fraall, that the diftindtion was, as it were entirely loft. 



. The charadteriftics of the South-Sea nations, are, upon the whole, 



very different from ours, and may therefore eafily be traced -, how- 



, the difference between them and all the nations, which are 



ever 



juff emerging from barbarifm, is not fo very confiderable, nor is It 

 poffible to point out fuch features as would at once diftinguiih the 

 inhabitants of each particular ifland, from, thofe of the others in 



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its neighbourhood, efpecially as our flay among them was fo Ihort, 

 and their language fo little underftood by us: we fhall neverthe- 



lefs 



endeavour to 



ive 



fome faint outlines of their maur- 



ners. 



The general external appearance of thefe nations, is, no doubt, 

 very ftrongly contrafted to ours, and we have already mentioned 

 fomething upon that fubjed in the i^OCiori, treating of the colour, 

 fize, habit of body, &c. &c. of thefe nations, which renders it un,- 

 neceffary to repeat the fame argument again.. 



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Dress charaderizes people moft remarkably, nor is 

 iform in the South-Sea-Iflands. The inhabitants of Tierra ^t\ 



we found deffitute of fuch parts of drefs, which modefty 



tuego, we 



would employ, and neceffity enjoin ; in the Weffern illands oi the 



Pacific Ocean, where the climate makes drefs not abfolutely ne.- 



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