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Thefe illes are very numerous, and have inhabitants of a brown manners- 

 colour, like thofe of the coafl of Philippines ; btit the inhabitants 



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of Pan leu or the Pa/aos, are like negroes, favage and barbarous j. 



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they go naked, and are canibals -, and are for that reafon, deteftedi 



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by the inhabitants of the Caroline-iflands, who look upon them; 

 as dangerous to deal with, and the fiends of mankind. 



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The chiefs at the Caroline-iflands are much refpedted ; they wear 

 long beards, and fit on a high feat, like a table, and give audience i 

 thofe who want to ta)k to a chief, bow very low, then fit down 



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*hear his commands, and go away after another bow, or they fome- 

 times kifs his hands and feet -, or they take the foot of the chief 

 gently with the hand, and rub their face with it. They think it. 

 likewife a mark of refpec^ to lull the Tamoles aileep by 



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Thefe few remarks on the manners, cufiioms, opinions, and re 



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ligion of the natives in the Caroline-iflands, if compared with thofe 

 ©f the inhabitants of the South Sea ifles, of the firfi: race, prove that 



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they bear a ilrong refemblance y and as this fimilarity of almoft 



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every circumfi:ance can hardly be accidental, elpecially if we con 



fider the vicinity of both clufters of ifles, and the correfpondence \vk 



theilature, colour, habit of body, and' turn of mind of the inhabi 



tants,, and the probable .fuccefilv^ migration, of thefe tribes from. 



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