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and In this refped they perfedly reieinble all iilanders in a lefs Mx^NNERS 

 civilized fituation,, who commonly have a fliy, referved, and 

 inhofpitable character. Nor are the inhabitants of the iflands in 



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the South Sea quite free from a coarfenefs of manners, even to 

 indelicacy in many refpedls, efpecially among the lower clafs of 

 people ; which appears from the dii|3utes of many of them, wherein 

 they fall to beating one another v/ith the fiil, and pulling one 

 another's hair: and the numerous opprobrious names of fauna, 

 ve/jeme wha-aturee, aiya, tahata-taivay dooe-doodi, tahata-peepee- 

 ■ree and others, corroborate this alTertion. 



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The more fertile the ille of Taheltee is, and the more richly It 

 affords all the neceffaries of life, and even thofe things which 

 contribute to make life eafy and comfortable, the more does it 



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of the greater part of 



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y few are in fuch a fitua 



as to be called poor. Whenever we came to this 



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we could evidently perceive the opulence and fiappinefs of its 

 inhabitants; and thofe people of other South Sea iflands, who 

 accidentally came to O-Taheitee always allowed it to be the richefl 



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land, which they had feen. Opulence never fails to excite the 



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for fenfual pleafure, and if no reflr 



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gratification, it grows itronger and Wronger, fo as at laft to 



guifh all the notions of propriety or decency. This has b 



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