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tlie children by their parents. As thefe nations have not yet a multl^ 



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plicity of artificial wants, and as their time is not yet taken up with 

 any bufinefs more material than the three enumierated articles, their 

 manufa6tures are in confequence very fimple, and undivided in many 



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branches ,; nay, they are all thought necelTary for every individual 



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in thefe illes, and for that reafon every child is inflruded in the beft 

 methods of cultivating the bread-fruit tree, the plantane-ftalks, the 



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roots of yams, and other eatable roots -, the moil expeditious ways 



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for catching fiih, the proper fea'fon and bait for each kind, and the 

 places which they haunt and refort to, are told to their children j 

 nay, all the fiflies, fhells, and blubbers, which in any ways may 



with fafety be 



named and fhewed to them, together with 



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food, haunts, and qualities ; the devices for catching 



birds, for rearing dogs, fw 



d fowls, and all the names of 



fpontaneous eatable plants are communicated to their youths, toge- 



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ther with their feafons and qualities 5 fo that there is hardly 

 10 or 12 years old, who is not perfedly well acquainted 



boy 



■of 



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thefe articles. But as the bark of the mulberry tree, requifite for 



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raiment, muft be cultivated with a great deal of care and applica- 





tion, their youths are well inftruded in the methods necelTary for 



ihat purpof( 



d every young woman is early intruded 



operations requifite for manufacturing and dying their cloth, and 



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of making mats, and other parts of their drefs. 



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