PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT 
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“ dreadfuUy CHAP. 
The gigantic busts which excited the surprise of the first visiters 
malt * ’t ‘'•e of time or 
maltreatment of the natives, that the existence of any of them at ;re 
sent IS questionable. At first thev i- 
the whole island; when Cook vWted^it .u over 
western side near the landing-place l^T T 
cupy a spot where it I doubtful °‘=- 
not. When it is considered how 
stowed upon these imaaes h f ”"*** '>0- 
w'ith the rude stone in,*i f™*" f**® quarries 
masses of rock could b P of the Indians, and before such huge 
of the island it i?“ f ‘™T“ted to, and erected on, so many pa4 
motives in their const ^ *®‘'® “otauted by religious 
objects of adoration ff 7’ ‘‘ *®‘'® “> 0*0 
Is it that the relivi 8° to decay by succeeding generations ? 
Island afforra eurif 5“ 'T ™®® 
island, erecting stone -f 
tinct or liavin» ahan 1 f • heights, and either becoming ex- 
Easter Island occur inT circumstances connected with 
the presumption that tlf^^” alluded to, in favour of 
The most remarkable o/tr”'^ ? P^^"" 
so nearly allied in lano-, present generation are 
Sea, as to leave no Sf^^ ^ 
— and yet in none of thpe i migrated from some of them, 
nary dimensions, or indeed f images of such extraordi- 
Islanders have, besides small Easter 
the inhabitants of the other" wtTuf‘“V l,“ >>3' 
hat there had been recent migrations from some of the i I u 
the westward, about Koggewein’s time, mav be inferred from !b 
Having recognised the animals on boaid his shin and fr .b"" 
hogs tattooed upon their arms and breasts ; whereas T 
’ there was not a 
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