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MANNERS with maiiy regulations for fecuring their focieties againft the power 



and oppreflion of their neighbours ; to the flill more happy flate of 

 the natives of NeW- Caledonia and the New- Hebrides, where they 

 depend flill more on cultivation, and feem to be lefs ferocious ; to 



that of the inhab 



of th 



Friendly-illes, wh 



cultivation 



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flouriflies in the moH perfed; manner, but under the difadvantage of 

 defpotifm, from their chiefs and their king, or Latoo-nipooroo -, to 

 the more increafed felicity in the Marquefa-iilands, where culti- 



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vation is well underflood, but not in fo 



high a degree as at th 



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Fxiendly-iiles, though their government is upon a more liberal 

 plan ', and at laft to the degree of happinefs which undoubtedly is 

 hlgheft among all the ides 'of the South-Sea, at Taheitee, where the 

 mildnefs of the climate, and of government, concur with the 

 greater extent and fertility of the illand, the gentle temper of the 

 inhabitants, and their courteous manners and improved minds, to 

 increafe their happinefs, and make it moil confpicuous and 



kfling^ 



The firft view will convince the unprejudiced obferver, of the great 



happinefs which reigns at O-Taheitee and the Society-ifles. All 

 the inhabitants are of an agreeable temper, and lovers of mirth and 

 ]oy ; I never faw any one, of amorof^, peevifh, difcontented difpofition 

 in the whole nation -, they all join to their chearful temper, a polite- 

 ncfs and elegance which is happily blended with the moft innocent 



fimplicity 



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