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yourfelf to the powerful rays of a vertical fun, you always find it 

 fufficiently temperate. The mitigating alternate fea and land 

 breezes afluage the heat of the climate ; and in all parts of the 

 South-Sea which we vifited, we found the inhabitants careful to keep 

 under fhelter during night, in order to avoid the cool and moift nodur- 

 nalair:| and we obferved in general, that in all other illands beyond 

 Taheitee and the Society-ifles, the natives hadhoufes better calcu- 

 lated to exclude cold and moifture than , thofe open jfheds : nay, as 

 the rains often came on in fqualls, attended with cold winds frora 



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the cloudy fummits of their hilb, they are squally folieitous to 

 take fhelter at the iirfb appearance of them. Their garments madb 

 of the bark of the paper-mulberry (Morus papyriferaj-s^xt at the fame 

 time a warm and a cool drefs ; fufficient to fcreen them againft the 

 rays of the fun, and.likewife. to keep off the noxious effeds of cool- 

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The fine tropical fruits, which afford a falubriousy palatable, 

 and nourifhing food, contribute likewife to preferve that healthy 

 habit of body which the natives generally enjoy, for they are as yet, 

 Grangers to the curfe entailed on Europeaa focieties, that a maa 

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relaxed, whofe nerves are tortured by acute pains, whofe. fluids 

 are poifoned with a virus which faps his vitals from the. very day of 

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