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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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