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Excerpt from Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas, Performed by Order of the Government of the British India, to Ascertain the Actual Fate of La Perouse's Expedition, Vol. 2 of 2: Interspersed With Accounts of the Religion, Manners, Customs, and Cannibal Practices of the South Sea Islanders
Priests, or fihe-gehe. - The term fihe-gehe means split of}; separate, or distinct from,' and is applied to signify a priest or man who has a peculiar or distinct sort of mind or soul, di¿'er ing from that of the generality of mankind, which disposes some god occasionally to inspire him.
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