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Manners & Customs of the South Sea Islands

Tepapa these at some very remote period of time & by the common means allowd to us males & females their children begat all that is seen or known of by us some things however they imagine have increasd among themselves as the Stars the different species of plants & even the different divisions of Time the Years say they producd the Months who intermingling with each other produc'd the days

The First man say they was the Issue of a Connection between two of their inferior deities or Eatuas who at that time inhabited the Earth he was when first born round like a ball but his mother with great care drew out each Limb & formd him as we now are after which he was Calld Eothe which signifies finishd. When he arrivd at maturity the Stings of nature made him very desirous of Excersising those faculties with which the males of all animals are indued his mother was the only female he could find & consequently the Object of his attempts ignorant however what part of her he was in search of he made several
 

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