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they had the names of Eatoh^ca and Teeghee 



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which latter they reprefented by a fmall ill iliap 

 eut in the green nephritic ftone, and this they commonly wore om 

 a firing round their necks : for as they have no fixed place of 

 abode, but are conflantly removing, they cannot erecft a figure of a. 



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Teeghee on a certain place, left it fhould be deftroyed by £bme: 



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hoftile party : another reafon for doing fo is, becaufe they never bury 

 the corpfes of their deceafed relations, but fink them, with 



in the fea ; it is therefore impofiible to rife any other monuments- 

 to the memory of their friends. 



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can wear 



and carry along with them. They likewife wear in commemo- 



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ration of their deceafed relations fome of their teeth about their 

 neck ; I have feen fome men and women wearing whole ftrings or 

 necklaces of teeth about their necks. 



In Eafl:er-iflan4 they bury their dead near the ranges of gigantic 

 ftone figures. 



which ferve 



lieu of the wooden. Tahe 



^eehees, (becaufe wood is extremely fcarce on their ifland) for I 



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was told that thefe figures reprefented their deceafed chiefs or 

 hareekees -, I obferved many human bones fcattered on the furface 

 of the ftone parapet wherein the ftone pillars were ere<fled* I 



meafured a thigh bone by my own and found them nearly of the 

 fame length. 



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