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good humour, "but wearing a degree of modesty 
and bashfulness that would do honour to the 
most virtuous nation on earth. Their teeth, 
like ivory, were regular and beautiful, with- 
out a single exception ; and all of them, both 
male and female, had the most marked 
English features. 
We are told, moreover, in the pleasing 
account given in the Quarterly Review of 
that date : 
" They sometimes wreathe caps or bonnets 
for the head, in the most tasty manner, to 
protect the face from the rays of the sun ; 
and though, as Captain Pipon observes, they 
have only had the instruction of their Ota- 
heitan mothers, ' our dressmakers in London 
would be delighted with the simplicity, and 
yet elegant taste, of these untaught females.' 
" Their native modesty, assisted by a pro- 
per sense of religion and morality, instilled 
into their youthful minds by John Adams, 
had hitherto preserved these interesting 
people pure and uncorrupted. 
" They all labour, while young, in the 
cultivation of the ground; and when pos- 
sessed of a sufficient quantity of cleared land, 
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