MAN 
MAN'GALUM, a town of Hindooftan, in Coimbc- 
tore: twenty five miles fouth-eaft of Coimbetore. 
MANGAN' I'SLANDS, a clulter of fmall iflands in 
the gulf of Sr. Laurence, near the fouth coaft of Labra- 
dor. Lat. 50. 15. N. Ion. 63. 40. W. 
MANGANA'DIA, a town of Hindooftan, in Cochin : 
twenty miles north-ealt of Cochin. 
MANGANESE. See Magnesium, p. 108. 
MAN'GANUM, f. Among the Greeks, a general name 
for inltruments to throw large ltones with. 
MANGARO'LE. See Mangalore. 
MANGASE'A. See Turuchansk. 
MANGAT'TI, a town of Hindooftan, in Travancore: 
eighteen miles north-ealt of Anjenga. 
MANGAVEI'RAS, a town of Brafil, in the government 
of Para : thirty-five north-ealt of Engenhoreal. 
MA'NGE,/i [ demangeaifon , Fr.] The itch or fcab in 
cattle.—The theep died of the rot, and the fwine of the 
mange. Ben Jonfon. 
Tell what crifis does divine 
The rot in fheep, or mange in fwine. Hudibras. 
MANGEABOO'NG, a town on the north-weft coaft 
of Borneo. Lat. 6. 3. N. Ion. 116. 9. E. 
MANGEA'RT (Thomas), a learned Benediftine, who 
obtained great reputation by his knowledge, and was ho¬ 
noured with the offices of antiquary, librarian, and coun- 
fellor, to duke Charles of Lorraine. He died in 1763, 
when he had nearly prepared for the prefs a valuable work 
edited the fame year by the abbe Jacquin, entitled, “ In¬ 
troduction a la Science des Medailles, folio. This work 
contains all the principles laid down in the elementary 
treatifes on the numifmatic fcience, with the moft inter- 
efting particulars of the feparate dilfertations on the fub- 
jeft; and ferves as a fupplement to Montfaucon’s Anti- 
quite Expliquee. This writer allb publifhed, an Octave 
of Sermons, with a treatife on Purgatory, 2 vols. nmo. 
1739. Noun. DiB. Hift. 
MAN GEE', a town of Hindooftan, in Bahars thirteen 
miles weft-north-weft of Chupra. 
MANGEE'A, or Mangy'a, an ifland in the South 
Pacific Ocean, difcovered by Capt. Cook in his third voy¬ 
age, in the year 1777; (at which time he had on-board 
Omai, who was then returning home;) but on which he 
could find neither a landing-place nor anchorage. Such 
parts as fell under our navigator’s obfervation were guarded 
by a reef of coral-rock, on the outfide of which the fea is 
of an unfathomable depth. It is full five leagues in cir¬ 
cuit, and of a moderate and pretty equal height; though, 
in clear weather, it may be feen at. the diftance of ten 
leagues. In the middle it rifes into little hills, from which 
there is a geptle defcent to the fliore, which, at the fouth- 
weft part, is lteep, though not above ten or twelve feet 
high, and has feveral excavations made by the beating of 
the waves againft a brownifli fand-ftone of which it is com- 
pofed. The defcent is covered with trees of a deep green 
colour, very thick, but not high. On the north-weft part 
the fhore terminates in a fandy beach, beyond which the 
land is broken down into fmall chafms or gulleys, and 
has a broad border of trees refembling tall willows. Far¬ 
ther on the afcent, the trees were of the deep green 
above-mentioned ; and were fuppofed by fome to be the 
rima, intermixed with low cocoa-palms, and a few of fome 
other forts. On the little hills were trees of a taller fort, 
thinly fcattered; but the other parts were bare; and 
of a reddifh colour, or covered with fomething like fern. 
Upon the whole, Cook obferves, that the ifland has a pret¬ 
ty afpefft, and might be made a beautiful fpot by culti¬ 
vation. When this ifland was firft difcovered, feveral of 
the natives were obferved to be armed with long fpears 
and clubs, which they brandifhed in the air, either with 
figns of threatenings, or, as fome thought, with invita¬ 
tions to land. Moft of them appeared naked, except a 
fort of girdle, which paffing between the thighs covered 
that part of the body. Some of them, however, had 
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pieces of cloth of different colours, which they wore as a 
garment thrown over their fhoulders: and almoft all of 
them had a white wrapper about their heads, nor much 
unlike a turban, or like a high conical cap. Their co¬ 
lour was tawny, and they were in general of a middling 
ftature, but robuft and inclining to corpulence. They 
were at firft afraid of approaching the fliip in their canoe; 
but, being addrefled by Omai in the Otaheitean lan¬ 
guage, their apprehenfions fubfided, and they came near 
enough to take fome beads and nails, which were thrown 
into their canoe. They wore a kind of fandals, made of 
a graffy fubftance interwoven, probably to defend their 
feet againft the rough coral-rock on the fliore. Their 
beards were long; and the inlide of their arms, from the 
fhoulder to the elbow, and fome other parts, were punc¬ 
tured or tattooed, like the inhabitants of almoft all the 
other iflands in the South Sea. The lobes of their ears 
were pierced, or flit, to fuch a length, that one of them 
ftuck there a knife and fome beads which had been given 
him ; and the fame perfon had two polilhed pearl-ihells 
and a bunch of human hair, loofely twifted, hanging about 
his neck, which was the only ornament that was obferved. 
The only canoe that was feen was not above ten feet long, 
and very narrow, but ftrong and neatly made. As the 
inhabitants feemed to be numerous and well fed, fuch ar¬ 
ticles of provifion as the ifland produces muft be verv 
plentiful. One of the iflanders who came 011-board in¬ 
formed our navigators, that they had no fuch animals as 
hogs and dogs, both which they had heard of; but that 
they had plantains, bread-fruit, and taro. The only birds 
that were feen were fome white egg-birds, terns, and nod¬ 
dies ; and one white heron on the fhore. The language 
of the inhabitants of Mangeea is a dialect of that fpoken 
at Otaheite; though their pronunciation is more guttural, 
like that of the New Zealanders. The natives of Mangeea 
feemed to relemble thofe of Otaheite and the Marquefas in 
the beauty of their perfons, more than thofe of any other 
nation feen by Capt. Cook in thofe Teas. Their general 
difpofition alfo correfponds with that which diftinguifhes 
the firft-mentioned people ; for they are not only cheerful, 
but are acquainted with all the lafcivious gefticulations 
which are praftifed by the Otaheiteans in their dances. 
Their houfes alfo feem to refemble thofe of Otaheite. 
They falute ftrangers much after the manner of the New 
Zealanders, by joining nofes; adding, however, the cere¬ 
mony of taking the hand of the perfon to whom they are 
paying civilities, and rubbing it with a degree of force 
upon their nofe and mouth. 
MAN'GEL WUR'ZEL, or Root of Scarcity. See 
Beta, vol. ii. p. 928. 
MAN GEN, a town of the duchy of Courland : tea 
miles fouth-vveft of Piltyn. 
MA'NGER,yi [ mangeoire, Fr. an eating-place.] The 
place or veflel in which animals are fed with corn._A 
churlifh cur got into a manger, and there lay growling to 
keep the liorfes from their provender. L'Ejlrangc. 
Manger, in (hip-building, a fmall apartment, extend¬ 
ing athwart the lower deck of a (hip of war, immediately 
within the haufe-holes, and fenced on the after-part by a 
partition, which feparates it from the other part of the 
deck behind it. This partition ferves as a fence to inter¬ 
rupt the paflage of the water, which occafionally guflies in 
at the haufe-holes, or falls from the wet cable whilft it is 
heaved in by the capltern. The water, thus prevented 
from running aft, is immediately returned into the fea by 
feveral fmall channels, called Jcuppers, cut through the 
ftiip’s fide within the manger. Tfie manger is therefore 
particularly ufeful in giving a contrary direftion to the 
water that enters at the haufe-holes, which would other- 
wife run aft in great ftreams upon the lower deck, and 
render it extremely wet and uncomfortable, particularly 
in tempeltuous weather, to the men who mefs and fleep 
in different parts thereof. 
MAN'GERA, an ifland of Mexico, about four miles 
in circumference, in the gulf of Amapalla. 
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