A VOYAGE TO 
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Employments of the Women, at the Friendly Ifiands.—Of the 
Men. — Agriculture .— Confirutlion of their Houfes.—Their 
working Tools. — Cordage, and fifing Implements.—Mufical 
Infiruments .— Weapons .— Food, and Cookery .— Amufe- 
ments. — Marriage.—Mourning Ceremonies for the Bead .—• 
Their Divinities.—Notions about the Soul, and a future 
State.—Their Places of Worfhip .— Government.—Manner 
of paying Obeifance to the King.—Account of the Royal 
Family.—Remarks on their Language, and a Specimen of 
it. — Nautical, and other Obfervations. 
HEIR domeftic life is of that middle kind, neither 
X fo laborious as to be difagreeable, nor fo vacant as to 
fuffer them to degenerate into indolence. Nature has done 
fo much for their country, that the firif can hardly occur, 
and their difpolition feems to be a pretty good bar to the 
laft. By this happy combination of circumftances, their 
necelfary labour feems to yield, in its turn, to their recrea¬ 
tions, in fuch a manner, that the latter are never interrupt¬ 
ed by the thoughts of being obliged to recur to the former, 
till fatiety makes them wifh for fuch a tranlition. 
The employment of the women is of the eafy kind, and, 
for the moft part, fuch as may be executed in the houfe. 
The manufacturing their cloth, is wholly configned to their 
care. Having' already defcribed the procefs, I fhall only 
add, that they have this cloth of different degrees of fine- 
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