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which he puts the head, and has one part hanging down the breail 

 and to the knees, and the other reaching as far down behind. 



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women wear bracelets of tortoife-fhell above their elbows, and in 



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their ears, rings made of the fame fubftance, in which they fome- 



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times put odoriferous flowers, or fmall beads of coco-nut-fhells. 

 The men ufe a kind of cap or fillet, made of plaited filaments, 



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ftuck round with birds feathers ftanding upright. Their body is 

 marked with various lines difperfed in various compartments, but 

 the women and children are without them. They are a fet of 

 people having well-proportioned limbs, but their chiefs are re- 

 markably tall and lufty, their hair is black, long, and falling in 

 curls; their beards are ftrong and bufhy, their nofes broad, their 

 Q-^^ large, lively and piercing. In their temper is a mixture of the 

 greatefl: good-nature and benevolence ; therefore if ever they quarrel, 

 they are never carried away fo far by their paflion or hatred as to kill 

 their advcrfary : the higheft pitch of their vengeance is to fight their 

 foes at fifty cuffs, and as foon as fome of the by-ftanders interfere 

 and feparate the combatants, their anger is over and they are eafily re- 

 conciled, efpecially by a few prefents made to the perfon offended. If 



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ever any one commits a heinous crime, his piinifhment never extends 

 further than baniftiment to one of the neighbouring iilands. Though 

 the breach of conjugal fidelity is reckoned a great crime, it is however 



deemed venial, and the injured hufband eafily forgets the offence 



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