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But the more civi^ manners 



ling the punctures with pounded coals or foot, 

 lized inhabitants of Taheitee and the Society-illes, living in the fame 

 mild tropical climate, have adopted a convenient, elegant drefs : tht 

 lower part of the body is generally wrapt in pieces of this cloth to 

 t{ie middle of the calf of their legs, and the upper part is covered 

 ;vith another piece, having a longitudinal hole cut in the middle of 



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it, through which they thru/l their heads, and thus they cover their 



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ihouldersj half of their arms, their backs and breafts ; fometimes 

 thefe parts hang loofe, . and at other times they are tied faft to the 

 body 



adopted by the inhabitants of the Friendly- iflands, with the en* 

 tire pmiffioa of the. upper-garment, which has the hole in the 

 middle,, and is called by the Taheiteans,. /^£'^<?(?/^.. In the 



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quefas and Eailer-Ifland, the fame kind of cloth is ufed by the na- 

 tives, though the full drefs feemed to be only a garment of cere- 

 mony, when their chiefs and women appeared in ilatCj the reil of 



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the lower^ wrapper. This lower wrapper is likewife 



wrappers 



the nation being but indiiferently covered with {hort 



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about the loins. Thus may we fee the progrefs in the drefs which 

 originated from a necelTary fhelter againfl the inclemencies of the 

 climate, and from a fenfe of modefty was improved tc^ a covering, 

 equally fitted for convenience and, elegance... 



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nations 



The inhabitants of the Society-ifles, are 

 of the South-Seas, the moft cleanly 5 and the. better fort of theni 



carry, 



