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and with a wooden fort, ereded to check the excurfion of the 

 corfairs of Tolo ; but in vain ; they cannot even protect their own 

 fubjedts who happen to be out of the reach of their cannon. 

 Extent. The ifland extends eaft and weft about ninety leagues, is tri- 



angular, and thefliores greatly indented by bays; the circum- 

 ference is faid to be about eight hundred miles. It is very moun- 

 tanous ; the vallies confift of a rich foil, black, fat, prodigioufly 

 fruitful, and finely watered with the pureft rills : the fides of the 

 mountains rocky, yet well clothed with trees of large growth. 

 The beauty of fcenery in various parts is unfpeakable : we are 

 obliged to Mr. Vorrejlior giving us fome idea of it in his Voyage 

 to New Guinea ; in plate 19, is a view of 'Tetyan harbor, of La- 

 hugan, and of the circular harbor of Ubal', in the ifle of Bunwoot, 

 on the eaft fide of the bay oilUano, near the great ifland. 

 Natives; Mindanao is inhabited by feveral different nations, fpeaking 



various languages, governed by fultans or rajahs. Mr. Fon'ejl, 

 and our faithful voyager Dampier, give accurate accounts of the 

 Haraforas. manners of the country, but particularly the firft. The Hara- 

 foras, the primitive people, now driven into the interior parts, 

 are highly taxed and oppreffed by the Mahometan nations who 

 poITefs the coafts. Dampier* ([Qicnh&s what he names the Minda- 

 nayanSy properly fo called, as men of mean ftature, fmall limbs, 

 ftrait bodies, little heads, oval faces, flat foreheads, fmall black 

 eyes, fliort low nofes, pretty large mouths, thin red lips, black 

 teeth, black ftrait hair, tawny fkins, inclining more to brighter 

 yellow than other Indians ; and adds, that they are of good un- 

 derftanding, ingenious, and a6live, when they chufe to exeit 

 themfelves, otherwife, like all other India?^Sy extremely indo- 



* Voyages, vol. i. p. 324. 



lent ; 



