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Wild Life in Southern Seas. 
men, is long and straight, while the women’s is 
usually in waves or curls. Their language is a 
variation of Tahitian, and, in the women and 
girl-children, very pleasant to hear ; but the men 
and boys have a practice of speaking in such 
vociferous tones when they are a little excited— 
as by a visit of strangers—that one is glad to 
hear them at a distance. Taking their present 
condition and comparing it with their past, one 
cannot but regretfully conclude that civilisation 
and Christianity has done them much physical 
harm and but little moral good. 
