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illuftrious Cook found in part a fepukhre in the maws of the 

 inhabitants of the Sandzvicb iflands. 

 En'canho On the iiland of Enganbo, about ninety miles fouth of fort 

 Island, f^i^rlborougb, arc inhabitants of moft favage appearance, and of 

 a language unintelligible to the few M'ho have vifited the place. 

 It was fcarcely known to have been inhabited, as it was long 

 deemed inacceffible by reafon of the rocks, and dreadful break- 

 ers. Commodore Beaulieu calls it UlJIe T'rompei/fe, and adds, 

 that the natives murder all that come on fliore. It appears from 

 the Eqfl. India pilot* to be of a triangular form. Mr. Charles 

 Miller was hardy enough to vifit it. He found the men from 

 five feet eight to five feet ten inches high, of a red color, with 

 black ftrait hair cut fliort ; that of the women long, and rolled 

 into a neat curl on the top of the head. The men went quite 

 naked ; the women had no more than a plantain leaf to hide 

 their nakednefs ; the arms of \\\e men were lances headed with 

 the bone of fifli, their^canoes made of two boards fewed together, 

 and the feam filled with pitch. Their houfes were circular, fup- 

 ported on ftakes of iron-wood ; they had no fort of fowl, cattle, 

 or rice; they lived on cocoa nuts, fugar canes, and fweet po- 

 tatoes, or fifli dried in the fmoke. The fifh they caught with 

 their lances, or in nets very neatly manufactured by themfelves. 

 Their behavior was hofpitable, nor did they give any fort of um- 

 brage, till f )me imprudent condu6l on our fide excited an alarm. 

 Conch fliells, the Murex Triionis, refounded in all parts of the 

 ifland, and our people thought fit to make a fudden retreat. 

 SoRF. A MOST furious furf rifes on great part of the weftexn and 



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