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MANNERS left every thing in the old fituation ; even the kings or chiefs of 



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thefe iilands, were al 



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honours fliewn them, and if we except the fupreme power, they 

 had not much changed their fituation for the worfe. There is 

 hardly an inftance of fuch moderation to be found in Europe. 

 They had however, it feems, fome notions, that ftrangers might 

 be treated with lefs friendship and honefly, than their countrymen, 

 becaufe no one of them hefitated a moment to ileal or pilfer any 

 thing, wherever he could lay his hands upon it, though they allowed 

 it to be wrong, and though theft was punilhed in their country 



with hangin 



g or drowning. 



They were, I believe, likewife in 



ibme meafure excufable : for why came a fet of ilrangers there, 



who had nothing to do on their fhores ? as they have no fhipping 



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trade, or connexion with foreign nations, or any 



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or any wants making fuch an intercourfe neceflary, they could 

 not forefee that they fhould ever want the protedlion or favour of 



any Europ 



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their favour by honefly : but the generality behaved in fo friendly 

 a manner, as muft endear their tempers and manners to all true 

 lovers and promoters of univerfal philanthropy. However, though 

 we find the iflanders in the South Sea nof without hofpitality, they 

 neverthelefs think the Grangers not quite entitled to all the friend- 

 ihip aod benevolence which they beflow upon their own brethren, 



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