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MANNERS 

 COMPARED 



REMARKS 



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THE 



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happinefs enjoyed by all ranks and 



ced that thefe ifland 



ges : in a word we are perfedly 

 lly enjoy a degree of felicity, 



wh 



feldoni 



ferved 



the more 



lized 



d 



which is here iliill more enhanced by the generality with which it 

 is diffufed over whole nations, by the facility with which it is at- 

 tainable, and by the juft proportion it bears to the prefent fcate of 

 thefe iilanders, to whofe condition this happinefs is perfedly ade- 

 quate, and which if enlarged would become incompatible with their 



\ 



capacities.. 



We have now and then illuftrated 



MS of the 



natives in thefe iilands, and reprefented fome of them to be simi- 

 lar to cuftoms which formerly did, or at prefent flill prevail 



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among other nations very diflant from thofe we had feen ; but we 



have alfo 



ded more of thefe parallel cufloms 



not 



ys 



wi 



th 



view to prove that nations, which chance to have the fam 



cuftom, owe their 



g 



th 



but rather to convince 



ourfelves that this fimilarity does not always give fufficient founda- 

 tion for fuch a belief. At the fame time we may fufped, that fome 



r 



of thefe cuftoms were really common to two nations, on account of 

 their common origin. 



The cuilom of cutting or punduring the body with inflruments 

 dipped in a mixture of water and lamp-black, and forming thereby 



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various figures on the various parts of the body, we found efta- 



j bliihed 



