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Thele Indians ufe axes, adzes, and chiiels, with which 

 !all they likewife bore holes. The chifels are made of 

 jafper, or of the bone of a man's arm ; and the:r axes 

 and adzes of a hard black Hone. Their tillage of the 

 ground is excellent, owing to the ncceffity they are under 

 of cultivating, or running the rilk of llarving. A long 

 narrow ftake', (harpened to an edge at bottom, with a piece 

 fixed acrofs, a little above it, for the convenience of driving 

 It into the ground with the foot, fupphes the place both of 

 plough and fpade. The foil being light, their work is not 

 very laborious, and with this inftrument alone they will 

 turn up ground of fix or fevcn acres in extent. Their fifh- 

 hooks are of (hell or bone ; and they have balkets of wicker- 

 work to hold the fi(h. Their warlike weapons are, fpears, 

 darts, battle-axes, and the patoo-patoo, in which they 

 chiefly confide. This is fattened to their wrifts by a ftrong 

 itrap led it fliould be wrenched from them, and the princi- 

 pal people generally wear it fticking in their girdles, confi- 

 dering it as a military ornament and part of their drefs, 

 like the poinard of the Afiatic and the fword of the Eu- 

 ropeans. The fpear, which is pointed at each end, is about 

 twenty-fix feet in length, and they hold it in the middle, fo 

 that it is difficult to parry a pufh from it. Whether they 

 fight in boats or on Ihore, the battle is hand to hand ; th.eir 

 contcfts mull be bloody. The war-dance confifts of a great 

 variety of violent motions and hideous contortions of the 

 limbs, during which the countenance and tongue perform 

 their parts. This horrid dance is always accomp.-.nied by a 

 fong, every ftrani of which terminates with a deep and loud 

 figh. 



The employment of the men is fuppofed to confift in 

 cultivating the ground, making nets, catching birds, and 

 fifliing ; while the women are engaged in weaving cloth, 

 procuring fern-roots and fhell-filh, and drefllng food. With 

 regard to religion, they acknowledge one fuperior being, 

 and feveral fubordinate. Their mode of worlhip could not 

 be learned, nor was any place proper for that purpofe feen. 

 There was indeed a fmall fquare area, encompafled with 

 Hones, in the middle of which hung a bafl<et of fern-roots on 

 one of their fpadcs. This they laid was offered to the gods, 

 in the hope of a plentiful crop of provifion. The inhabitants 

 of the fouthcrn diftrift faid they difpofed of their dead 

 by throwing them into the fea ; but thofe of the north faid 

 they buried them in the ground : captain Cook's crew, 

 however, faw not the leaft fign of any grave, or monument ; 

 but the body of almoft every inhabitant bore the marks of 

 wounds wliich they had given themfelves, in token of grief 

 for the lofs of their friends and relations. Some of thefe 

 fears were newly made, which is a proof that their friends 

 had died while the fhip's crew were there, yet no one faw 

 any thing like a funeral, as the iflanders conceal every thing 

 refpefting the dead with the utmoft caution. A great 

 fimilitude was obferved between the drefs, furniture, boats, 

 and nets of the New Zealanders, and thofe of the inhabit- 

 ants of the South fea iflands, which furnifh a ftrong proof 

 that the anceilors of both were natives of the fame coun- 

 try. The language of New Zealand and Otaheite is ra- 

 dically the fame ; and that of the northern and fouthern 

 parts differs chiefly in the pronunciation. S. lat 34° to 48°. 

 W. long. i8i°to 194". Cook's Voyages by Hawkfworth, 

 vol. ill. 



ZEAMAH, a river of Algiers, which runs into the 

 . Mediterranean, 6milesS.S.E. of Cull. 



ZEAN, a town of Hindooftan, in Dooab ; 20 miles S. 

 of Canoge. 



ZEB, or ZiB, a town of Syria, near the fea-coaft, an- 



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ciently called Achfaph, Achzib, and Ecdippa ; 9 miles 

 from Acre. 



ZEBAIDE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Far- 

 fiftan ; 80 miles E. of Schiras. 



ZEBDAINEH, a village of Syria, built on the fpot 

 where it is faid by feme that Cain flew his brother Abel ; 

 14 miles N.W. of Damafcus. 



ZEBE, or Zaab, in Ancient Geography, a town which 

 once formed a part of Mauritania Sitifenfis ; it was fituated 

 at the foot of the chain of mount Atlas. 



ZEBEE, in Geography, a river of Abyffinia, which runs 

 into the Indian fea. 



ZEBEER, a town of Arabian Irak ; 12 miles W. of 

 Baflbrah. 



ZEBEN. See Szeben. 



ZEBET, a word ufed by fome of the chemical writers to 

 exprefs dung. 



ZEBID, in Geography, a city of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen. Zebid was once the place of a fovereign's refidence, 

 and the moft commercial city in all Tehama ; but fince the 

 harbour of Ghalefka was choked up, its trade has been tranf- 

 ferred to Beit el Fakih and Mocha, and this city now retains 

 nothing but the ftiadow of its former fplendour. Viewed 

 from a diltance, it appears to fome advantage, by means of 

 the mofques and kubbets, of which it is full. Several of 

 thofe mofques were erefted by different pachas, who refided 

 here during the fliort period while this part of Arabia was 

 in the pofleffion of the Ottoman Porte. Zebid had once 

 eight gates ; of thefe only five are now ftanding, and the 

 river is gradually breaking down a part of them. The 

 walls of the old city are demolilhed, and the very ruins are 

 fold by poor people, who gather out the ftones, and fell 

 them for building new houfes. The prelent buildings oc- 

 cupy about one half of the ancient extent of the city. 

 Zebid is iUUdiftingui filed for an academy, or univerfity, for 

 the Sunais, as that of Damar is for the Seiditts, in which 

 the youth of Tehama, and a part of Yemen, ftudy fuch 

 fciences as are cultivated among the Mufliilmen. This is 

 befides the feat of a dola, a mufti, and tliree cadis ; 52 

 miles N. of Mocha. N. lat. 14° 12'. E. long. 43° 15'. 



ZEBIO, a mountain of Italy, which fometimes emits 

 flames; 6 miles S.of Modena. 



ZEBLICIUM Marmor, in Natural Hijlory, a name 

 given by feveral authors to a foft green marble, variegated 

 with black and white ; and though the authors who have 

 defcribed it have not obferved it, yet it no way differs from 

 the white ophites of the ancients. See Ophites. 



ZEBOIM, in Ancient Geography. See Seboim. 



ZEBRA, in Zoology. See Equus Zebra. 



ZEBU, a name given by M. de Buffon to a variety of 

 the bos taurus of Linnaus, or bifon of other writers, or 

 the camel. This variety refembles the Indian ox, or bos 

 Indicus, but is extremely fmall, being found in fome parts 

 of India of a fize fcarcely larger than a great dog. In co- 

 lour it differs hke the common cattle, being either grey, 

 brown, white, &c., or varioufly fpotted. The Indian ox, 

 which is found in many parts of India, as well as in the In- 

 dian and African iflands, and particularly in Madagafcar, is 

 of a reddilh colour, of a very large fize, and is diftinguiflied 

 by a very large protuberance over the Ihoulders. 



Zebu, in Geography. See Sibu. 



ZEBULUN, or Zabulon, in Scripture Geography, one 

 of tlie .Tewifli tribes in Lower Galilee, on the S. of the 

 tribes of Aflier and Naphtali, having the Mediterranean on 

 the W., the fea of Galilee on the E.; feparated on the N. 

 from Aflier by the river Jepthael, and on the S. from Iffa- 

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