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We had no opportiiui ties of feeing, their method of punifhing MANNTr 

 jriininals, but we were told that thieves were either hanged or 

 drowned, with a weight tied to their necks 5. in either kind of 

 puniflimentare no veftiges of cruelty. In their wars all is over 



after the firfl onfet, and it does not appear that they take any 



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prifoners of war,, or if they do, that they treat them in an inhuman 



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or barbarous manner*. We found not even the vefliges of makino^ 

 flaves of them in- the fenfe that Eaftern nations do^" or ilill_ lefs 

 by employing thenl to hard and toilfomc labour, as v/e were ufed 



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do with thofe whom we fend, by thoufands to our col 



All that, can be faid again ft their friendly difpofitions, is contained 



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in fome relations we hear-d of the devaflations the people of Tearraboo 



or the little Peninfula made on O-Parre, after the battle of the- 

 lilhmus : it was reported that they burnt houfes and^ canoes, and 

 carried off all their hogs : but even this is in my opinion, not 



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fufEcient to reprefent them more cruel than the civilized nations of 

 Europe, who plunder,- waile, and burn with fb much eagernefs, 



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and fo little concern, that if we judp-e from thence, the actions 



above mentioned, feem by no means to brand the inhabitants of 



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the South Seas with cruelty and barbarifm. The natives of Bora- 

 bora had conquered 0-Raiedea and O-^aha, and fome of their 



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chiefs and warriors_had occupied the lands of fuch people as had 

 fled the country, but except in this inftance,, the conquerors had 



left 



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