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was at a considerable distance off. Their principal subsistence 

 was turtle and small fish, which they caught with hook and 

 line, and shell fish which abound on the reefs. The island 

 also produces a small fruit " like a plum with a stone in it," 

 probably a species of Eugenia. The fish were broiled over 

 the ashes of a fire, or boiled in the basin of a large volute, 

 (Voluta Ethiopica), which being rather a scarce shell is of 

 great value to them. 



" The island of PuUan is covered with low trees and under- 

 wood, and the soil is sandy. In the centre of it is a spring, 

 which supplied the whole party with sufficient water for their 

 consumption ; and, as Ireland says, they used a great deal, 

 it must at least have yielded fifteen or twenty gallons a-day, 

 for the hole was always full. Upon a voyage they carry 

 their water in bamboo joints, and cocoa-nut shells, as do the 

 Malays. 



" After remaining here two months, the Indians separated. 

 One party taking Ireland and the infant D'Oyly with 

 them, embarked in a canoe, and after half a-day's sail 

 reached another islet to the northward, where they remained 

 a day and a night, on a sandy beach ; and the next morn- 

 ing proceeded and reached another island similar to Pullan, 

 low and bushy, where they remained a fortnight. They 

 then proceeded to the northward, calling on their way at 

 different islands, and remaining as long as they supplied 

 food, until they reached one,* where they remained a 

 month, and then they went on a visit to Darnley's Island, 

 which they called Aroob, where for the first time, Ireland 

 says, he met with kind treatment. 



" After a fortnight they again embarked and returned by 



* Probably one of the group of the northward of Half-way 

 Island, near Aureed, named by Mr. Lewis, Sir Richard Bourke's 

 Group. 



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