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of all the islands to the east of the Figiis, including 
the Friendly Islands and New Zealand, though they 
have many characteristics in common with these, have 
a number essentially distinct. 
The natives of Chatham Island and New Zealand, in 
the south; the Sandwich Islands, in the north; the 
Friendly Islands, in the west; and all the intermediate 
islands, as far as Easter Island, in the east, are one 
people. Their mythology, traditions, manners and cus¬ 
toms, language, and physical appearance, in their main 
features, are, so far as we have had an opportunity of 
becoming acquainted with them, identically the same, 
yet differing in many respects from those of the islands 
to the westward of Tongatabu. 
The dress of the Figiians, &c. is not the same as that 
of the natives of New Zealand, Tahiti, and the other 
Islands; they do not appear to wear the cloak or the 
tiputa. In war they throw long spears to a considerable 
distance, and use the bow and arrow, which the others 
only employ in their amusements. 
The difference in their physical character is greater; 
the dark complexion, woolly hair, and slender make, 
indicate them to be a different people. 
Various points of resemblance might be shewn be¬ 
tween the aborigines of America and the natives of the 
eastern islands of the Pacific, in their modes of war, 
instruments, gymnastic games, rafts or canoes, treat¬ 
ment of their children, dressing their hair, feather head¬ 
dresses of the chiefs, girdles, and particularly the tiputa 
of the latter, which, in shape and use, exactly resem¬ 
bles the poncho of the Peruvians, but it would lead too 
far at this time. 
We have every reason to believe the canoes of the 
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