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A. There are a few customs existing in Ireland peculiar to this country these are their funeral howlings and presenting their corpses in the streets to excite the charity of strangers, their convivial meetings on Sunday, and dancing to bagpipes, which are usually attended with quarreling.
Even the scholarly Morse, the author of the first Geography printed in the United States, indulges in some picturesque ?ights of imagination, as when he writes that the great men of the Friendly Islands are fond of a singular kind of luxury, which is, to have women sit beside them all night, and beat on different parts of their body until they go to sleep; after which, they relax a little of their labour, unless they appear likely to wake; in which case they redouble their exertions, until they are again fast asleep. A careful reading of Mariner's Account of the Friendly Islands, a book published by John Murray Sons in London in 1817, thirty-four years after Morse published his first Geography, reveals no account of any such custom, and Mariner lived in the Friendly Islands for a number of years.
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