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Simplicity of manners. Their youth fhews indeed a great deal of ^manners 

 levity, which with a maturer age, ripens into a more placid counte- 



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nance and behaviour ; and experience, together with their good na- 



tural parts endow them with 



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dence and folidity for their 



condud: in life. 



They are polTefTed either of land as their own property, or enjoy 

 a fufficient fhare of fruits and roots in lieu of the cultivation of the 

 lands belonging to their chiefs, to whom they give likewife a fhare 



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of thefe produdions. The great fertility and mildnefs of the cli- 

 mate, reduce the number of their wants, and at the fame time afford 

 them after a very moderate labour, a great afHuence of food and rai- 

 m.ent, and very neat habitations, well adapted to the climate. The 

 pampered epicure in Europe knows hardly the multifarious ingre- 

 dients of his difguifed ragouts, and his palled appetite remains indif- 

 ferent to the almofl infinite variety carried to his. table from every 



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quarter of the globe ; nor has he the fatisfadlion to know how or 

 where thefe things are produced, or manufaftured, while the more 



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happy inhabitant of Taheitee plants his own breadfruit tree, and 

 plucks the fruit for his own ufe; the banana tree raifes by his in- 



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duflry and care, its elegant llem, its pi6turefque leaves, and the de- 

 licious fruit all in one year; the yam, the eddo, the tacca and many 



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Other roots are the produce of the foil cultivated by his own hands : 



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he catches the fifli for his dinner, his wife rears and feeds the dog, 



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