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fruit, At a time when the reft of the people ahe obliged to live 

 upon horfe-plahtanes, the fruit of the Ratta-tree, (Inocarpm tdnlis) 

 the roots of eddoes, or the Arum tfcukntum and macrorhhony and 

 thofe of yams or Diofcorea alata and oppojttjfolia ; or they then 



* 



chiefly ufe the Mahee or four-pafte prepared from fermented ripe 

 bread-fruit, * . 



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SCIENCES 



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The whole of the bread-fruit feafon, including the time when 



they have 



called T!i 



d 



therefor 



fwerable to a 



year 



They count the revolutions of the moon, and 



them by 



the fame name as the moon Marama or Malama. 



They 



enume- 



w 



rated tome thirteen names of moons or lunations, and then faid 

 iJ<7r^-f^-/^i?(?, the year is gone i and added flill Oo?namioo, often, 

 ^often, many times; which feemed to imply, that the cycle of 



the lunations Is to be repeated every ye 



They beg 



the 



year 



■about Marcli, when they likewife begin to make their bread-fruit 



\ ■ 



four-pafte or Mahee, Tor which purpofe immenfe quantities Of 



h 



the fruit are plucked off, which naturally creates fome fcarcity 



r 



of this their chief aliment, and muft increafe the fame in proportion 

 as the feafon advances. I cannot, from the mere enumeration of 



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w 



the thirteen names of months, prevail on myfelf to think that 



their year has thirteen lunations, but rather 



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Tt t 



that they have 



but 



* The defcrtption of the opefatioris nccclll^vy for this purpofe, h given In Iia\vkefvVorth» 

 vol, ii, p, 198, 199^ 



