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I have not the leaft doubt that the hymns which fome of the religion. 



were 



part 

 and 



inhabitants at Tanna fung every morning at day break, 



of the worfhip they paid to the divinity, as the folemn 



flated regularity with which it was heard, feem to confirm this 



opinion. Of their manner of burying we faw not the leafl veiliges. 



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At New Caledonia on the fummit of a barren hill we obferved 



flakes ftuck in the ground, with branches 



whifp of dry grafs, and we were told that th 



on the top, and a 

 is was one of their 



burying places : clofe to the fea-ihore we faw like wife an inclofure 



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made of flicks, round a tumulus of about four feet high, on which 

 were placed feveral flicks, on the tops of which feveral large 

 turbines were flicking : and we were informed by the natives that 

 this was the burying place af the chief of the diftrid- On 



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illand of Ballabeea lying to the N. W. of New Caledonia, 



the 



our 



peopl 



wh 



were fent there by Capt 



Cook 



found a larg 



fepulcral tumulus of one of their chiefs, who vv^as killed 



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the inhab 



of Mingha or Mmd. 



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fland fituated 



Northward 



North Wellward of their own 



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and 



with them 



Lailly I found fome 



miles from the place where our fhip was at anchor at the foot of 

 the large ridge of hills running along the whole illand, a houfe of 

 one of their chiefs, and behind it a range of v/ooden pillars, about 



X^Xi or twelve Inches fquare, and eight or nine feet high, wit) 



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carvf^d 



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