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South Sea

to be about our size & well made of a dark brown complexion stark naked wearing their hair tied back with a fillet which passd round their head & kept it sticking out behind like a bush The greatest number of them carried in their hands two weapons, one a slender pole from 10 to 14 feet in lengh at one end of which was a small knob or point not unlike the point of a spear the other not above 4 feet long made much like a paddle as possibly it was intended for their canoes were very different in size the two which we saw them launch seemd not intended to carry more than barely the 3 men who got into each of them others there were which had 6 & some 7 men one of these hoisted a sail which did not seem to reach above 6 feet high above the boat this (as soon as they came to the reef & stoppd their boat they took down & converted into a shed to shelter them from a small shower of rain which then fell the Canoe which followd us to sea hoisted a sail not unlike an English lugsail & near as lofty as an English boat of the same
 

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