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Bashee 

 Islands. 



Singular 

 Villages. 



MANILLA ISLANDS. 



Calamha ; the ftream which runs from it is of a boiling heat ; 

 and raifed the liquor in M. de Reaumur's thermometer to the 

 height of 69 degrees, even at the diftance of a league from the 

 fource. M. Sonnerat obferved five flirubs, the roots of which 

 were drenched by the ftream, and the top enveloped in the va- 

 por, yet grew with vigor. At the fame time the fwallows which 

 happened to fkim the brook, at the height of {tvtn or eight feet 

 from the furface, fell down motionlefs. 



The Bapee iflands lie midway between Manilla and For- 

 mofa ; the middlemoft of them is, according to Lord Jnfon, in 

 Lat. 2° 4 north. I fpeak of them here notwithftanding they 

 belong to neither one or the other. Bampkr^ in the year 16S7, 

 being engaged in thefe feas in a buccaneering expedition, wiflied 

 for a temporary concealment. He had feen in certain charts, the 

 figure V. which denoted their number *. He failed to the fpot, 

 and found them to correfpond in pofition and number. None 

 of them had names, fo he bellowed on them thofe of Orangey 

 Grafton^ Monmouth, Gcaty and BaJJjee, the laft from a fort of 

 beer made of the boiled juice of the fugar cane, and fome fmall 

 black berries, which was put into jars to fettle, and was thought 

 by our feamen an excellent liquor, capable of giving the pleafure 

 of ebriety, without the bad effedls. The natives fold it to them in 

 plenty, for which reafon they made it the general name of the 

 illands. 



Monmouth and Grafton ifles are very lofry, with a nume- 

 rous fucceflion of precipices one above another. On thefe the- 

 natives build their villages, which affords the lingular profpecfl 



* Dampier's vovace, i. 420. 



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