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Each day is divided into fix' hours, and the night into the fame 



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number; which they can guefs at very nearly during the day, by 

 the height of the fun : but few can guefs at thefe divifions by the 



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heighth of the flars during night. Thefe hours, which anfwer to 



ours,, have peculiar names, and are in length fimilar to the 



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 SCIENCES 



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hours of the Ghinefe, 



Some of them only I could learn : the^ 



call midnight Otoo-rabai-ph ; from midnight towards day-break is 

 Oetai yaowy day -break is named Ootaafaheita; and fun rife Er^- 

 ooao ; when the fun grows hot, the time is called Era-t-cowerra y 



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when he is in the meridian, they fay Era-t-ooawatea y 



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the evening before funfetting they name oaaheihei -, and after funfet^. 



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Thefe divifions of time enable thefe iHanders to obierve the heavenly 

 bodies with greater accuracy for their feveral purpofes.. They know 

 that the fixed flars do not change their pofition in regard.toone ano- 

 ther, and have by long experience difcovered vv^hichftarsrife and fet 



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feafons of the year ; and by their help they determine th 



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progreffive motion 6f the pi 



and the points^ of the 



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during night. Tupaia was fo well fkilled in this, 



they came with the fhip during the navigation of nearly a year, 



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previous to the arrival of the Endeavour at Batavia, he could, always 



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point out the dire(5tion in which Taheitee was fituated. 



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