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would be greatly altered at a moderate diilance from their iile, and 



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be of no further ufe to them. We found however upon 

 examination, that this moderate fhare of aftronomy and the 

 jQightnefs of their embarkations did not hinder them from 



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 SCIENCES 



acquiring a very extenfive knowledge of the iflands in the 

 neighbourhood. Tupaya the moil intelligent man that ever was 



met with by any European navigator in thefe illes, had himfelf 



been ten or twelve days fail to the Weftward of 0-Raiedea -^ which 

 according to Capt. Cook's computation, * would make 400 leagues, 

 or about twenty degrees of longitude. This man when on board 



the Endeavour, 



gave an account 



of his 



navigations and 



mentioned the names of more than eighty illes which he knew, 



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together with their fize and lituation,. the greater part of which he-^ 



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had viHted, and having ibon perceived the meaning and \ 



charts, he gave dire6i:ions for making one a'Ctiording to his account, . 



and always pointed to the part of the heavens, where each ifle was 

 fituated, mentioning at the fame time that it was either larger or 



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fmaller than Taheitee, and likewife whether it was high or low, 

 whether it was peopled or not, adding now and then fome 



curious accounts relat 



to fome of them 



Of this ch 



a copy was obligingly communicated to me by Mr. Pickerfgill,, 



Lieutenant 



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f Havvkefworth, vol, ii, p^ 278, 



