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nfedted with it, either before we viiited thofe parts 



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fome time after we had left them 



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ifles, the infedtion came in 1774 again into our 



ftaid only a few days at Namocka, I believe none either received or 



communicated it there. In the more Weftern Ifles of Mallicollo, 



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Tanna, and New- Caledonia our failors had no connexion with the 



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females -, but in New-Zeeland the diforder was again communicated 



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to our crew. So that there is great reafon to believe that the 



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venereal difeafe has not been lately introduced into thefe ifles, but 

 was known there for a long time 5 especially as Ohedeeddee or 



Mahaine, the young man of Borabora, who went with us in 177 

 from O-Raiedea, told us that this evil was very common in Bora 

 bara, where however, no European fhip had ever touched ; nay 

 he informed us that his own mother died of this difeafe before the 

 arrival of Europeans in thefe ifles. 



It feems tome therefore highly probable, that this infectious 



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-evil is of fuch a nature, that by a very libidinous life, and promif- 



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cuous cohabitation of males with females, it may very eafily be 

 caught ; and we are now certain, that there is hardly a country to 

 be found, where the young unmarried females are allowed fuch a 



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latitude as at O-Taheitee and its neighbourhood in admitting a 

 variety of young males, and abandoning themfelves to various 

 ^embraces without derogating from their charader. Women of all 



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