THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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for the natives to come and trade with the fhips as nfual; 
but the women, for what reafon we could not learn, ftill 
continued under the effects of the taboo ; that is, were for¬ 
bidden to flir from home, or to have any communication 
with us. 
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January. 
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