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[Footnote 85: Memoir of Rev. William Cross, missionary to the Fiji Islands, by Rev. John Hunt. London.]

[Footnote 86: An allusion to the custom of strangling the sick.]

[Footnote 87: _Nineteen Years in Polynesia_, by Rev. George Turner. London, 1861.]

[Footnote 88: _A Voyage towards the South Pole and round the World_, by James Cook, Book iii,