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THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
initiating a thought—No; it was the pure emotions of na¬ 
tive benevolence—It was the love of man to man.—It was a 
fcene that pictured human nature in triumphant colouring 
■—And, whilft their liberality gratified the fenfe, their virtue 
{truck the heart! 
Our people had alfo many occafions to oblerve, that this 
fpirit of urbanity operated in all'the intercourfe the natives 
had among themfelves. The attention and tendernefs {hewn 
to the women was remarkable, and the deportment of the men 
to each other mild and affable; infomuch that, in the various 
fcenes of which they were fpedfators, during their If ay on 
thefe iflands, the Englifb never faw any thing that had the ap¬ 
pearance of contefl, or paffioh : every one feemed to attend 
to his own concerns, without interfering with the bufinefs 
of their neighbour.—The men were occupied in their 
plantations, or in cutting wood, making hatchets, line, 
or fmall cords: fome in building houfes or canoes; othefs 
in making nets and fifhing-tackle. The forming of darts, 
fpears, and other warlike weapons, engroffed the attention 
of many more; as alfo the making of paddles for their boats, 
the fafhioning of domeffic utenfils, and the preparing and 
burning the chinaim—Such as had abilities to conduct any 
ufeful employment were called by the natives Tackelbys ; of 
this clafs were reckoned the people who built, or inlaid the 
canoes; fuch alfo were thofe who manufactured the tortoife- 
fhell, or made the pottery. 
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