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ners are fo limllar and Co nearly related to thofe of the people in the manners 



^ COMPARED' 



iflands of the South Seas juft mentioned. * 



The inhabitants of the ifland of Ulee (one of the Caroline- 

 iflands) and its diftrid, are of various colours, fome are fairer 

 than the reft, like Meftifos, who have a Spanifh father and an 

 Indian mother ;- others are fimilar in colour to the Indians at the- 



Philippines 



d 



th 



again 



like 



m 



fprung from 



negro and an Indian woman. The moft tawny peopk are of the- 

 lowell clafs,. and ferve inftead of domeftics. They all live chiefly 

 upon fifh, which they catch in great abundance, upon cocos and 

 feven forts of roots, fimilar to thofe ufed in the Marian-illands. 

 They have fowls, and catch all kinds of birds efpecially of the 

 aquatic fort, which they ufe for food -, but they are without any 

 quadruped. The houfes of the common people are fmall cottages 

 covered with thatch of a kind of palm leaves (probably the A'thro- 

 dadlylis) but thofe of their chiefs or T a m-oles are large, painted. 



Their boats are high both before 



and ornamented on the infide 



fide of the 



and behind, and the planks are fewed together ; to one 



M 



boat outrriggers: are. fixed,, which are alfo faflened to a long fpar 



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placed 



* This accountof the manners of the people in the new Caroline iflands has been abflrafled 



from des BraJJis Hijloire des navigations aux tcrres Aujlrahsy vol. ii. p. 445 — 511. In order 



to prevent repetitions, we Ihall only refer the reader to the paffages of this work, to Capt. 

 Cook's Voyages and thofe of George Forller. 



