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Like the old Britons, and Northern nations, they reckan not by MANNERS 

 days, but number the nights, if they want to exprefs the inter- 

 val of feveral days. As their minds 

 ilrike the fenfes, they have no 



oil ufed to things that 



proper words for expreffing abftraft 



they call the thoughts f^e words 



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ideas ; thus for inflance 

 belly y '■^ parou no-te-ohoo y' a covetous man is called tahata pirrec^ 

 pirre, ov piperrlee ; and it fliouid feem they had in their minds the 

 idea of narrownefs, or glueing and flicking together, when they 



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formed the word, for e -pirre has the above Hgnifi cations ; a gene- 

 rous man is called tahata-oowhoroa^ or literally, the man of gifts or 



prefents ; the head of a huma 



they call oopo ; that of 



quadruped 



or 



fifli. 



bmee ; and that of a bird poa-arahoii ; 



the TAIL of a dog is called airo ^ of a bird, hbl^e ; 



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this laft name is very remarkable, becaufe 



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preffive of the ufe the fifhes make of their tail ; for ehoe-whateerra, 

 iignifies a paddle for fleering a canoe, or great boat ; and the eetem 

 of iifh, ferves likewife for the diredlion of its courfe in the water. 



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The males of the human Ipecies, they exprefs by the word tane ; 

 nnd the females, by that of veheine ; but the males of fifhes, birds, 

 or any animal, are called o^iee -, and the females, bwha : fo that 

 from thefe few inflances, we mfiy form fome idea of the charader- 

 iftic points in their lanp-ua<<e. 



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The COMMON OCCUPATIONS of the people of Taheitee, j 

 the Society-iflands, as" well as thofe in all the iilands of the Pacific 



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Ocean 



