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mixed with fome minced meat of fhell or cmy-fifh, and thrown 

 the fea inebriate fiih to fuch a degree, that they may be caught 



A R T S 

 AND 



by the hands, the chief fruit thus employed is that of the Ban 



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fpeciofa or E-Habdoo 



d the leaves are thofe of the Daph 



foetida or O 



Galega pifcidia or Ebb 



d Lepidium Pifci 



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dium or Enou- 



When they difc 



at fea a quantity of bird 



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hovering over a certain fpot, they are fare that a number of fiili is 

 affembled there, and they haflen there with their failing canoes 

 and feveraL i;///^^-wte^j hung out on each fide by a bamboo pro-. 



ey never fail to 



jeding from the canoe at a good diftance, and th 

 catch a great number of thefe fifh. Thus we find that the attention 

 which they beftowed on the various kinds of fifh and their nature,, 

 gave them opportunities of making proper ufe of thefe obfervations 

 for better and eafier catching thefe animals, which make fo material 



a part of their animal food. * 



The moft neceffary ideas relative to food 



garment 



and 



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form the firfl 



part of 



educat 



thought to be 



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effary among thefe iflandersi The fertility of thefe ifles 



the 



mildnefs of their cliijiate, together with the happy and joyful 



temper 



Maled 



with which their fea fwarms ; and as animal food of quadrupeds is not very common witk 

 them, fifh are their moft material food. See Francois Pyrard's "voyage, 41-. Paris, 1679, 



Part i. p. 88, 136, and 166. . 



