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this, it is beat until it is brought to the breadth required.
The youngest part of the females are obliged to attend with old Adams, and their brothers to the Culture of the land, and it is on this accounts doubtless that this old director of the work does not countenance too early marriages; for as he very properly observed, when once Mothers, they are not so capable of hard Labour, but obliged to attend to their Children; and from all appearances they would be very prolific, indeed I do not see how it could be otherwise, considering the regularity of their lives, their simple, tho' excellent way of living; their Meals consisting chiefly of a vegetable diet, with now & then excellent Pork, and occasionally good fish. -
The Women, or rather thee young girls, although they have only the example of their Mother to follow in their dress (who are Otaheite Women) are much more modestly clad than any