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who wore blue glass beads in their ears, and did 

 not look amiss, though their dress is but little dis- 

 tinguished from that of the men : they wore thick 

 rings of iron or copper on their arms, and their 

 long hair w^as fastened in a braid round their head. 

 As soon as we had doubled Cape Deceit, the land 

 became low, and vanished in the south. There arose 

 high mountains at a considerable distance, and I 

 directed my course thither in the hope of finding 

 a large river ; but as the depth gradually de- 

 creased, we were obliged to cast anchor at two 

 o'clock in the afternoon in five fathoms water. To 

 the west, at a distance of six miles, lay low land 

 which takes its direction to the north, and then to 

 the N. E. To the south-east we saw the high land 

 in the neighbourhood of Cape Deceit, which from 

 thence extends to the west, where it gets quite low ; 

 to the S. W. was nothing but the open sea. I must 

 here mention two mountains, which served me in 

 my survey as fixed points, they being every where 

 higher tlian the others. The one lay south-east 

 14°, and cannot be mistaken on account of its sum- 

 mit, which is in the form of two asses' ears, for which 

 reason we gave it the name of Asses' Ears ; the 

 second, the summit of which is of considerable ex- 

 tent, lay to the S. W. 47° ; it continues to run in 

 an horizontal direction, and looks as if the frag- 

 ments of a ruined castle stood on it, of which some 

 towers were still remaining. ■ These, however, I 

 afterwards recognized to be stone pillars, resembling 



