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the tropical race, aflive aiul nimble, and fcem to excel in the 

 ufc of arms, but not to be fonil of labour. Both fexes are 

 of a very dark colour, but not "black ; nor have they the lead 

 charafterillic of the negro about them. They make them- 

 fclves blacker tlian they really are, by painting their faces 

 with a pigment of the colour of black lead. They alfo ufe 

 aiiother fort, which is red ; and a tliird fort, brown, or a 

 colour between red and black. All thcfe, but efpecially the 

 firft, thev lay on with a liberal hand, not only on the face, 

 but on the neck, flioulders, and breaft. The men wear no- 

 thing but a belt, and the wrapping-leaf, as at MaUicollo. 

 The women have a kind of petticoat, made of the filaments 

 of the plaintain-tree, flags, or fome fuch thing, which reaches 

 below the knee. Both fexes wear ornaments, fuch as brace- 

 lets, car-rings, necklaces, and amulets. The bracelets are 

 chiefly worn by the men ; fome made of fea-fliells, and 

 others of thofe of the cocoa-nuts. The men alf6 wear amu- 

 lets ; and thofe of mod value being made of a greeniih ftone, 

 the green ftone of New Zealand is valued by them for this 

 purpoft. Necklaces aie cliiefly ufed by the women, and 

 made moftly of fhells ; ear-rings are common to both fexes, 

 and thofe valued moft are made of tortoife-fltell. Thefe 

 people, befide the cultivation of ground, have few other arts 

 worth mentioning. They know how to make a coarfe kind 

 of matting, and a coarfe cloth of the bark of a tree, which is 

 chiefly ufed for belts. The workmanfhip of their canoes is 

 very rude ; and their arms, with which they take the moft 

 pains in point of neatnefs, come far fhort of fome others. 

 Their weapons are clubs, fpears, or darts, bows and arrows, 

 and ftones. The clubs arc of three or four kinds, and from 

 three to five feet long. Captain Cook knew no more of their 

 cookery, than that it confifts of roafting and baking ; for 

 they have no veftels in which water can be boiled. Nor did 

 he kno.w that they had any other liquor but water, and the 

 juice of the cocoa-nut. They were utter flrangers to their 

 religion, and but little acquainted with their government. 

 They feeni to have chiefs among them, at leaft fome were 

 pointed out to him by that title-, but they appeared to have 

 very little authority over the reft of the people. They gave 

 ntimations that they praftjfed circumcifion, and that they 

 allowed themfelves to eat human flefti ; but captain Cook fays, 

 that it admits of doubt whether they are cannibals. The 

 idand contains a very conliderable volcano, and fome hot 

 fprings were difcovered, which raifed the thermometer frpm 

 80° to 170°, and in one place to 202°. Captain Cook 

 named the harbour where he lay. Port Refolution, from the 

 name of the fliip, wliich was the firft that had ever entered 

 it: which is fituated in S. lat. 19° 32' 25". E. long. 

 169° 44' 3j". The variation of the needle was 7° 14' I2"E. ; 

 and the dip of its fouth end 45° 2^'. The time of high 

 water on full and change days was about 5'" 45'", and tlie 

 tide rofe and fell three ieet. 



Tanna, a town of Hindooftan, in the ifland of Salfette, 

 on the eaft coaft ; 15 miles N.E. of Bombay. N. lat. 19° 13'. 

 E. long. 72° 53'. 



Tanna, or Thann, a town of Saxony, in the county of 

 Reuffen ; 17 miles S.W. of Greitz. N. lat. 50° 25''.. E. 

 long. 1 1° 57'. 



Tanna Balloo, a fmall ifland in the Eaft-Indian fea, 

 near the eaft coaft of Borneo. N. lat. 4° C2'. E. lone-. 

 118° 21'. ^ 



Tanna Mera, a fmall ifland in the Eaft-Indian fea, 

 near the eaft coaft of Borneo. N. lat. 3° 45'. E. long. 

 117=5'. 



TANNA R, a town of Bengal ; 35 miles E.S.E. of 

 Moorftiedabad. 



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TANNAS, a town of Sweden, in Harjedalen ; 15 miles 

 N.W. of Langafchantz. 



TANNASER, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of 

 Delhi. This place was formerly held facred by the Hindoos. 

 In 101 1 it was taken by Mamhood, king of Gizni ; 45 miles 

 N.E. of nifl"ar. N. lat. 29° 31'. E. long. 76° 20'. 



TANNAY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Nievre ; 16 miles S.S.E. of Clamecy. 



TANNDORF, a town of the principality of Culmbach ; 

 S miles S. of Culmbach. 



TANNEBERG, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles S. of 

 Aigen. 



TANNED Hide. See Hide and Leather. 



TANNENBERG, in Geography, a town of PruflTia, in 

 the province of Oberland ; 6 miles S.S.W. of Hohenftein. 

 — Alfo, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Erzgebirg ; 6 

 miles S.W. of Wolkenftein. 



TANNER, Thomas, in Biography, an Englilh prelate, 

 and eminent antiquary, was the fon of a clergyman, who was 

 vicar of the parifh of Market Levington, in Wiltfliire, where 

 he was born in the year 1 674. He entered into Queen's 

 college, Oxford, in 1689, and having graduated as B.A., 

 he removed to All-Souls college in 1694, of which he became 

 a fellow in 1696. At the univerfity he devoted himfelf very 

 much to the ftudy of antiquities, and in 1695 publiflted his 

 " Notitia Monaftica," or " A ftiort Account of the rehgipus 

 Houfes in England and Wales," which attrafted notice ; and 

 foon after Dr. Moore, biftiop of Norwich, appointed, him his 

 chaplain, and in 1701 made him chancellor of his diocefe ; 

 which office led him to acquire an extenfive and correft ac- 

 quaintance with municipal and ecclefiaftical law, fo that he 

 was often confulted by the dignitaries of the church. 

 Having married the bifhop's daughter, he obtained in fuc- 

 ceflion various prefeiTnents ; and in 1 710 he took the degree 

 of DiD. In 1723 he became canon of Chrift-church, Ox-- 

 ford; in 1727, prolocutor of the lower houfe of convo- 

 cation ; and in 1732, bifhop of St. Afaph. He died at 

 Chrift-church, in 1735, where he was buried. He was 

 thrice married, but left only one fon. He was diftinguiftied 

 by the exemplary difchargeof his clerical fun&ions, and by 

 the liberality of his charities. Availing hmifelf of papers 

 prefented to him by Wood, lie puhlillied a fecond edition 

 of his " Athenae Oxonienfes," much correfted and enlarged, 

 with the addition of more than five hundred lives from the 

 author's MS. Lond. 1721. 2 vols. fol. A pofthumous work, 

 founded on his Notitia, and entitled " Notitia Monaftica j 

 or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories, and Houfes of 

 Friars, heretofore in England and Wales, and alfo of all the 

 Colleges and Hofpit^ls founded before 1540," was pub- 

 hflied by his brother, the Rev. John Tanner, Lond. 1744. 

 fol. Another elaborate work, on which he had beftowed 

 the application of forty years, entitled " Bibliotheca Bri- 

 tannico-Hibernica ; five, de Scriptoribus qui in Anglia, 

 Scotia, et Hibernia, ad Szeculi xvii. initium floruerunt, lite- 

 rarnm ordine juxta familiarum nomina difpofitis Commen- 

 tarius, &c." was publiflied in 1748, fol. under the care of 

 Dr. Wilkins, who prefixed to it a learned preface. He 

 had alfo made coUeftiqns for the hiftory of his native 

 county of Wilts, but by removal to a diftance he was pre- 

 vented from profecuting his delign. To the Bodleian li- 

 brary he bequeathed many valuable papers, tending to illuf- 

 trate the hiftory of thefe illands, and he made feveral com- 

 munications of a fimilar nature to the Society of Anti- 

 quaries, of which he was a member. His various labours in 

 this way rank him among the moft valuable contributors to 

 Britifti hterature and ecclefiaftical hiftory. Biog. Brit^ 

 Gen. Biog. 



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