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tated for the mere fatisfadion of brutal appetites, nor treated better MANNERS 



beafts of burd 



thout being allowed to have the leaft will 



of their own : which incontefiibly proves, how much men, In a 

 degenerated and favage ftate, are inclined to opprefs the weaker 



party 



Et Venus in fyhis jungehat corpora amaniunl 

 Conciliabat enim vel miitiia qiiemque cup'ido, 



Vel violent a njiri vis, at que impenfa libido. 



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• The females at Tan N A, Mallicollo, andNEw-CALEDONiA, 

 'were not in a much happier condition -, for, though we never knew 



them to be beaten and abufed by their own offspring, they were 



however obliged to carry burdens, and to take upon themfelves 

 every laborious and toilfome part of domeflic bufinefs. This un- 

 happy fituation of the females among the fivage and barbarous tribes 



of the South-Sea, has neverthelefs been produd:ive of an advantage. 



f. 



which, in our opinion, fliould rate them above their furly lords or 

 oppreffors ; for, though the conilant ads of indelicacy, oppreffion. 



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and inhumanity, are fo far from contributing towards the real con- 



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tentment of the females, that they on the contrary reduce them to 

 the moft wretched beings -, yet this very oppreffion, and the more 

 delicate frame of their bodies, together with the finer and more irri- 

 table texture of their nerves, have contributed more towards the 



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