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and even language, to the nations we had been fo much _ »7 80 ' 



. February. 



converfant with, in the South Seas. The effects of the Ja- 

 vanefe climate, and I did not efcape without my full (hare 

 of it, made me incapable of purfuing the comparifon fo 

 minutely as I could have wiihed. 



The country abounds with- wood to fuch a degree, that 

 notwithftanding the quantiry cut down every year by the 

 (hips which put into the road, there is no appearance of its 

 diminution. We were well fupplied with fmall turtle, and 

 fowls of a moderate fize ; the laft were fold at the rate of 

 ten for a Spanifh dollar. The natives alfo brought us 

 many hog-deer, and a prodigious number of monkeys, 

 to our great annoyance, as mod of our failors provided 

 themfelves with one, if not two of thefe troublefome 

 animals. 



As we mould have met with fome difficulty in finding the 

 watering-place, if Mr. Lannyon had not been with us, it 

 may be worth while, for the ufe of future navigators, to de- 

 fcribe its fituation more particularly. The peaked hill on 

 the ifland, bears from it North Weft by North ; a remark- 

 able tree growing upon a coral reef, and quite detached 

 from the neighbouring (hrubs, Hands juft to the North- 

 ward j and clofe by it, there is a fmall plot of reedy grafs> 

 the only piece of the kind that can be feen hereabout. 

 Thefe marks will (hew the place where the pool emp- 

 ties it (elf into the fea; but the water here is generally 

 fait, as well as that which is in the pool. The ca(ks muft 

 therefore be filled about fifty yards higher up; where, in 

 dry feafons, the fre£h water that comes down from the 

 hills, is loft among the leaves, and mud be fearched for by- 

 clearing them away* 



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