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REMARKS 



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MANNERS -carry cleanlihefs to a very great lengthy they bathe every nwning 



and evening, in a rivulet, or the fea- watei 



and after' they come 



immerfion of their bodie 



out of the fea, they conflantly undergo an 



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in frefli v/ater, for the ablution of the briny particles j before and 

 after their meals they wafh their hands -, and were glad to obtain 



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from us combs of all fizes and kinds, in order to adjuft their hair, 

 and likewife to free them from vermin, which, before the intro- 



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dudion of European combs, they frequently fearched for, rendering 



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this fervice to one another; they likewife anoint their hair, with 



both 



f( 



fine fm 



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perfumed coco-nut oil, 



the increafe of vermin, which are inftantly killed, as foon 



hind 



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fpiracula are ftopt up with the oil. 



The want or fcarcity of freih 



water, in all the L 



d Friendly-Iilands, makes the 



lefs 



careful of ablution, and caufes among them, I believe, thefe cuta- 

 neous and leperous diforders, which 



we found fo common among 



them 



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But the inhabitants of the New-Hebrides and New-Cale- 



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we obferved to be more cleanly, becaufe freih water is 



more common, and they were 



likewife careful in.deftroying th 





yermin. 



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The inhabitants of the Friendly-Iilands conilantly clip the hair 

 of their beards, by means of two iliarp bivalve ihells ; and 1 do 

 ijot rernember to have {qqu, in all thefe iiles, one fingle man, witn 



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a long 



