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369. Some account of Savu
[Margin note] healthy appeard healthfull & did not shew by scarrs of old sores or any scurvyness upon their bodies a tendency to disease Some indeed were pitted with the small pox which Mr Lange told us had been now & then among them in which case all who were seizd by the distemper were carried to lonely places far from habitations where they were left to the influence of their distemper meat only being daily reachd to them by the assistance of a Long pole
How the police of their villages is carried on I cannot say I saw, but must allow that they excelld in the article of cleanliness both in their houses and without, in one thing particularly, which is their ordure, they are certainly very clever, [Margin note] 3 days for during our stay of 3 days not one among us that I could find out saw the least signs of it notwithstanding the populousness of the countrey, a circumstance which I beleive few of the most polishd cities in Europe can boast of
Their religion according to the account of Mr Lange is a most absurd kind of Paganism every man chusing his own god & also his mode
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