Note 45 — Chapter XV · NATIVE CULTURE IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES
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Since writing the above the following has been seen: “The higher Polynesian races, such as the Tahitians, Hawaiians, Samoans, had one and all outgrown, and some of them had in part forgot, the practice (cannibalism) before Cook or Bougainville had shown a top-sail in their waters.”—In the South Seas, R. L. Stevenson, p. 94.