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Manners & Customs of the South Sea Isles

as well as at Madagascar so that supposing by any misarangement of his papers that he has given the numerals of some of those Isles for those of Madagascar our wonder will be much diminishd for after having tracd them from Otahite to New Guinea it should seem not very wonderfull to carry them a little farther to the East Indian Isles which from their situation seem not unlikely to be the place from whence our Islanders originaly have come but I shall wave saying any more on this subject till I have had an opportunity of myself seeing the customs &c of the Javans which this Voyage will in all probablity give me an opportunity of doing

All the Isles I was upon agreed perfectly as far as I could understand them the people of Ulietea only chang'd the t of the Otahiteans to a k calling Tata which signifies a man or woman Kaka a circumstance which made their Language much less soft The people of Ohiteroa as far as I could understand their words which were only shouted out to us seemd to do the same thing & add many more consonants
 

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