Q U A D R U P E D S, &c. 75 



lent ; flately in their gait, but very civil to ftrangers ; vindidtive, 

 and given to the crime of poifoning. The dreffes of the inha- 

 bitants is given in one of Mr. ForreJTs plates, reprefenting the 

 nuptials of two young people of rank. 



The capital town is on the great bay of Illano-, on the fouth 

 fide of the iiland, in Lat. 7° 20' ; the houfes, even the palace, are 

 fupported on pofts, from fourteen to twenty feet high, to keep 

 them clear of the water in the feafon of inundations. Cap- 

 tain Forrejl, in his Voyage to New Guinea ^^, mentions the 

 Lano, a great lake far inland ; it is about fixty miles in circum- Lano Lake; 

 ference, and in one place fome hundred fathoms deep, in others 

 ten, twenty, and thirty ; has four iflands, and abounds with fifli. 

 The inhabitants of its banks are called Illanos, and amount to 

 thirty thoufand, intermixed with Haraforas, all of whom are 

 faid to be very much civilized. 



In mentioning the produ6tions of this archipelago, I fliall juft Productions. 

 diftinguilh the few that, with great uncertainty, are thought pe- 

 culiar to Mindanao. Gold is common to all. It has its faltpetre 

 cave, from which much of that article is extradted ; on the roofs 

 are infinite clufters of fmall bats, the dung of which is fuppofed 

 to be one caufe of the fait ; a brook of a moft offenlive tafte and 

 fmell, and of a iky blue color, iffues from^ the mountain which 

 inclofes the cavern. 



These iflands feem to produce all the animals common to Quadrupeds. 

 thofe adjacent with the addition of an ugly hog, with great 

 knobs over the eyes, evidently my /Ethiopian Boar, Hifl;. Quad. i. 

 1^* 76 ; numerous in the woods, and very lean, but fweet. 



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