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have made In the art of medicine, we took occafion to mention manners 



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the difeafes oF the country, efpecially the leprofy and the venereal 

 difeafe, and made fbme obfervations on the latter. Geography,, 

 agronomy, and navigation, are in fome meafure underftood among, 

 them, in confirmation of which the illes are defcribed, and out; 



readers referred to a 



map 



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drawn, according to the informations 



given by Tupaya ^ their hours, days of the moon, and the number 



and names of the moon in their year, are enumerated together with 

 thofe of the cardinal points, and of fome ftars., To their education 

 likewife belong the ideas relative to the Deity and religion. Their 



fyflem of polytheifm 



plained, and the names and fun<ftions of 



their gods and geniufes enumerated, their mode of worffiipping de- 

 fcribed, their ideas on the fubjed; of the origin of the world, and its 

 ifles, as well as of mankind in general, and on their ftate after death, 



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together with the various rites 



and 



ceremonies 



birth, marriag 



and death 



particularly laid open and defcribed 



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gene 



neral view of the hiftory of thefe iflanders, enables us to form a^. 

 judgment on their real happinefs; which is by no means equal' 



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among all the nations we viiited in the courfe of our voyage, but is 

 progreffively varied from the wretched exigence of the poor PelTe- 

 rais to that of the unfettled life of the people in the Southern illand 

 of ISTew-Zeeland ; to the more comfortable fituation of the tribes in. 



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the Northern ifle, where the cultivation of ground has taken place^. 



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