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little at a time, and repeat it often. They bathe three times a day. 



MANNERS 

 COMPARED; 



and are always very neat and 



ly. Their king- or g 



chief 



refides in the ifle of Ulee, and another lives in that of Lamurec, 

 and all the chiefs or Tamoies of the neighbouring ifles are fubjecSs 



vaffals of thefe two kings. Each iiland 



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noblemen or T amoks of the royal family and one of them govern s^ 



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the ille* A kind of ^Qntvy inferior in rank are next to the Tamoles,, 



and the low people are flill more fubjeded ; each of thefe ranks of 



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men fhew great refped: to their chiefs. 



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Thofe who are willing to pay a viiit to their chiefs, iliew 



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reiped: amongft others by painting their bodies with a kind of ar^ 



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aromatic yellow pafte; * this is likewife obferved on their feftivalsj; 



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"but the chiefs are almofl: conflantly painted in this manner, 



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raiment of the common people confifls of a piece of cloth wrapped^ 

 round their loins and thighs, part of which pafTes between- theli* 



legs. 



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The women are drefled in the fame manner, with this dif- 



ference only,, that the cloth reaches down 



the 



ddle of their 



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liegs, whereas that of the mea hardly covers the knees.. The upper 



is naked ; however fometimes a kind of cloak. 



part 



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with a hood to it is worn by them over their ihoulders.. The chief 

 wears a piece of cloth with, a hole cut in the middle of it, througb 



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In tKe Friendly illes, Eaffer IQand^ and all tHe New Hebrides, tHey ilain their Bodies 



and cloth, fometimes with a yellow aromatic powder, extr^tcd from turmeric. 



