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REMARKS 



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MANNERS 



fions, and fat down In order to take fome refrefliments, the natives 

 of Taheitee and the Society Iflafids never omitted to rub our feet 

 and arms, and to add this to the many little ads of kindnefs and 

 hofpltallty, which they beilowed upon us with the greateft readinefs. 

 and chearfulnefs j as they themfclves never failed to perform this, 

 fervlce to one another, on fimllar occafions.. 



The rank affigned to women In domeftic fociety, among the va- 



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rious nations, has fo great an influence upon their civilization and 

 morality, that I cannot leave this fubjedl, without adding a few re- 



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marks 



The more debafed the fituation of 



and of courfe 



the more remote from civilization, the more harfhly we found the 

 women treated. In Tier ra del Fuego women pick the mufcles 

 from the rocks, which conftitute their chief food. In New-Z'ee- 

 LAND, they collect the eatable fern-roots (Pteris efculenta,^ Poly- 

 pdium medullarey) they drefs the viduals, prepare the flax-plant, 



and manufadure 



garments 



knit the 



for their fifhing 



? 



and are never without labour and employment, whilfl the furly men 

 pafs the greater part of their time in floth and indolence : 



however 



thefe are the leafl: hardflilps of thefe unhappy females ; for they are 

 not only the drudges of the men, but are not even permitted to 

 puniih their unruly and wanton boys,, who often throw ftones at 



the eyes and 



their mo 



or beat them with impunity, under 



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fanc^lion of their fathers ; and they arc looked upon as beings calcu 



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lated 



