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In cafe they fliould be injured by neighbouring focieties or 

 tribes, they avenge their wrongs by war. They chiefly ufe lances 

 and darts for arms, which are barbed with points of human bones, 

 and conftantly exercife themfelves in throwing lances and flones at 

 a mark. They march up regularly in three lines, the iirfl con^- 

 Hiling of young men, the fecond thofe of a middle age, and laftly 



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the old men fland behind, and no fooner is one of the firfl rank 

 killed, than the man behind occupies the empty place. They have 



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no defenlive weapons, but endeavour to avoid the miflile arms of 

 the enemy by agility : their wars are by no means bloody and cruel j 

 the death of two or three men commonly decides the victory, and 

 the conqueror^ announce their conqueft by a loud triumphant fhoUt, 



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and infulting words againfl the routed party. 



They have an idea of the immortality of the foul, and of a flate 

 wherein the good are rewarded and the wicked punifhed. When 

 common people die, their corpfes are thrown into the fea. But the 

 bodies of their deceafed chiefs are painted yellow j the aifembled 

 people cut locks of their hair and beards, and throw them on the 

 corpfe in tellimony of their grief, to which they add in loud voci- 

 feration the praifes of the dead, and laftly abftain all that day from 

 eating. After this ceremony the corpfe of the deceafed is inclofed 

 in a fmall ftone apartment in their own houfes, or buried at 



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