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eatea by the natives. The knowledge only of vegetables fit foe 

 food, forms a confiderable lift of names,, and of ideas conneded with 

 them; nor have v/e enumerated all thofe which are occafionally 

 aten. In the Friendly-illes, t\iQ Jhaddock. f citrus decumanus). i 

 eommon, and called moreed'-, or moleea-. in Mallicollo they have 

 Granges: in the ille of Tanna, the eugenia iambos,2in6. an other eugenia 

 are ufed for food : the natives- likewife eat feveral forts of figs, and 



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©f one fpecies the leaves are drelTod in . a kind of pie, made of yams 



f . 



and plantanes ^ the kernels of the 



catappaj and of the: 



fierciilia balanghasy are likewife eaten : at N^w- Caledonia, the bark: 



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of the hibifcus tiliaceuSi which they cultivate, is ufed for food,, but: 



IS', m 



my opinion, a wretched kind of aliment. 



The next neeeffary cai'e, after food> is raiment j and in this re^- 



fpe(ft the 



of Tahe 



and the neighbouring ill 



tainly well provided*) it is therefore no fmall trouble to teach the 



young people all the various branches 



of manufad:u 



relat 



clothing.. Their drefs confifts chiefly of three different forts ; the 



a kind of cloth manufactured from the bark of trees, the 



one is 



fecond confifts of various fpecies of matting, ferving for various pur- 

 pofes ', and the laft article comprehends all the different ornaments 



fed 



on certain 



and dreffes appropriated for certain ranks, or i 



occafions, or for. performing certain ceremonies or religious 



rites 



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