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occupation or amufement. About noon, having wafhed his hands, manners 

 he begins his meal of bread-fruit or four-pafte baked by hot ftones. 

 under ground, and has perhaps, his brother and fon for companions, 



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whilft his wife and tlie females of the family,, retire with their 



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wait till the males have 



portion to another part of the 



finifhed their meal. 'Clear v/ater is their comm.on drink, and 



frequently even fea- water. Another ablution of the hand 



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eludes the dinner, and if the occupations in. which he is engaged 



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are not preffing, he refts on the ground in his hut, or if he be weary 

 from conilant "hard labour, whether from a long walk, or from- 

 hard paddling, he refufes not to refrefh his exhaufted fpirits by a- 

 feafonable fleep during the heat of the day, and in the cool of the 



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till the declining fun bids him refl from- the toils of the day j when 

 after another Hight repaft, and another ablution, he lays 



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the ground on a mat,, and covers himfelf with his garment, by the 

 iide of his wife -, unlefs he finds it more neceffary to go on the reef 

 with lighted links, in quefl of a provifion of fifh... 



The more barbarous, the lefs polifhed the manners of the nation^ 



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are, the more marks, of cruelty towards Grangers are generally 

 obferved 5 and in this refped^, I fhould. think,, the natives of the- 

 tropical iilands fhev^ed the moil favourable fymptoms of friendship 

 and philanthropy 5 for as foon as our fhips arrived, they were 



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