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8 



REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



ARTS 

 AN D 



SCIENCES c 



wliich feem to be connected with the new Caroline Iflands to the 



from Greenwich, 



South in about 205 degrees 



Weft longitude 



near the line : the names of thefe ifles are given in ?vlr, Dalrympk's 

 CoUedion of Voyages, vol. i. p. 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39; but 

 as they were not mentioned by the natives, I have forborn to fpeak 

 of them as proofs of the Geographical knowledge of the natives of 



thefe parts. 



The foregoing account of the many iflands mentioned by Tupaya 



inhabitants of the iflands in the 



is fuflicient to prove that the i 



South Sea have made very confiderable navigations in 



and weak canoes ; navisrations which many Europeans would think 



their flight 



up 



on a 



ful view of the vc&\ 



impoffible to be performed, 



r 



themfelves, their rigging, fails, &c. &c. alfo the provifions of 



the climate. 



The arts of dancing, mufic, and poetry, are generally 



tmderflood by almofl every 

 lowefl rank, but the fciences of phyfic and its various branches, 

 thofe of geography, navigation, and aflronomy, are known only 

 to few. This ignorance extends fo far that the greater part o'l 

 the nation cannot count beyond ten : 



individual from the higheft to the 



but thofe who have httvi 



I' 



inflrucStcd by their teachers can reckon as far as 200. I could net 



learn whether they 



beyond that numbe 



b 



1. 



am rather 



inclined to believe they cannot. Their way of reckoning is \iY 



enumerating 



