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W. about three leagues, but before we got the length 

 of it, it fell calm. 



While we lay becalmed, several canoes came off to 

 us, but the people having heard of our guns, it was 

 not without great difficulty that they were persuaded 

 to come under our stern: after having bought some 

 of their cloaths, as well as their fish, we began to 

 make inquiries concerning their country, and learnt, 

 by the help of Tupia, that, at the distance of three 

 days' rowing in their canoes, at a place called Moore- 

 w^ENNUA, the land would take a short turn to the 

 southward, and from thence extend no more to the 

 west. This place we concluded to be the land dis- 

 covered by Tafman, which he called Cape Maria 

 VAN DiEMEN, and finding these people so intelligent, 

 we inquired farther, if they knew of any country be- 

 sides their own: they answered, that they never had 

 visited any other, but that their ancestors had told 

 them, that to the N. W. by N. or N. N. W. there was 

 a country of great extent, called Ulimaroa, to which 

 some people had sailed in a very large canoe ; that 

 only part of them returned, and reported, that after 

 a passage of a month they had seen a country where 

 the people eat hogs. Tupia then inquired whether 

 these adventurers brought any hogs with them when 

 they returned; they said, No: Then, replied Tupia, 

 your story is certainly false, for it cannot be believed 

 that men who came back from an expedition without 

 hogs, had ever visited a country where hogs were to 

 be procured. It is however remarkable, notwith- 

 standing the shrewdness of Tupia's objection, that 

 when they mentioned hogs, it was not by description 

 but by name ; calling them Booah, the name which 

 is given them in the South-sea islands ; but if the 

 animal had been wholly unknown to them, and they 

 had had no communication with people to whom it 

 was known, they could not possibly have been ac- 

 quainted with the name. 



About ten o'clock at night, a breeze sprung up at 



