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therefore obliged to raife their heads in order to bring the obje(5t 



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of vifion; and Dampier found this defed: 



among the people of New- Holland 



In th^ fame manner the 



thick elephants leg, which was obferved at the Society-iiles, and at 

 New- Caledonia, was not uncommon among the Nai'rs of Calicut 



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and in Ceylon. 



Nor muft we forget feveral ilrange cufloms which are common 

 to places at very confiderable diftances from^ the South Sea, Jn 



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Mallicollo the inhabitants were fhy on firft approa,ching our fliip 

 in their canoes -, however, when they faw that they were permitted 

 to approach unmolefted, and with fafety, they took fea- water in the 

 hollow of their hands, and threw it on their heads j and when we 

 landed, they dcfired us to go through the fame ceremony, which 

 they intrepreted as an ad: of friendfliip. The inhabitants of Pulo 

 Sabuda, near New Guinea, ufed the fame ceremony, as a lign of 

 friendfhip : \ nor is it quite improbable that the Mallicolefe are 

 the offspring of feme of the tribes on or near New Guinea ; but 

 on the coaft of Guinea in Africa, the natives will not come into a 

 fhip, unlefs the Captain iirft come down over the fide, dip his hand 



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into the fea, and fprinkle his own head with it ; which they look 



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* Dampler^s Voyage, vol. u p. 4^4. 



\ Francois Pyrard's Voyages, vol. i. p, 28^ 



i Dainpier's Voyages, vo-l.ui. p. 18^-6. 



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