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ready obferved, page ^^6. Though this cuftom might appear very 

 fingular, it has been howeyer ufual in other nations. 



The women 



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of the Hottentots fqueeze the nofes of their children flat with the 

 thumb : * and in Macaiiar they flatten the nofes of the children^ 

 and repeat th^ operation feveral times every day,, foftening at the 

 fame time the nofe with oil or warm water, "f 



It is a kind of luxury introduced at Taheitee, to anoint the hair 

 with an odoriferous oil ; and the fame cuJflom has been obferved 



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among the inhabitants of the Maldive-iflands. J The natives of 

 Tanna are remarkable for the growth of hair on their body y we 



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pbferved feveral individuals who were very hairy, hardly one part 



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of their body being exempted from this extraordinary growth of 

 hair j for I faw one,, who was even on his back covered all over 

 with hair. Kor is this uncommon in other places, for the inha- 



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bitants of the Maldives were obferved to be more h^ixy over the: 



whole body, than the Europeans. || 



As to defeats and difeafes, we found fome in the iffes, which by 



other navigators had been obferved in other places. In. Tanna we 



faw men and children who could not lift up their eyelids, and were 



therefore: 



* Kolbcn's Defcription of the Cape of Good Hope, Englifh tranflation, vol. i. p, ^i^. 

 f Gomara Hiftoria general de las Indias*.. 

 % Pyrard Voyages, vol, i. p* 8o» 



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II Idem, voL i, p. 8i. 



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