TIMOR. ^^ 



world, excepting Guinea; and they are fold with as little rc- 

 morfe as in any portion of the hardened univerfe. 



From Balli is a long chain of illands (which I fliall, from Timoria.v 

 ri7J2or Laut, call the Tmtorian chain) running eaftward, and ex- ^"^'''' 

 tends very near the coafts olNew Guinea, inclining a little to- 

 wards the north as they approach that great ifland. The names 

 of the moft confiderable are Lomboc, Gumbava, Ende, or Flores ; 

 from the laft they are broken into fmaller ifles, fuch as Solor, 

 Omba, and others, fcattered,over the fea, or grouped in clufters ; 

 tiwor Laut and Arrou are the moil eaftern, and the largeft of 

 the latter clafs. 



Very near to the fouth fide of Omba is the great ifland of TiMo.Is..N-n. 

 "Ttmor, which points to the fouth-weft ; and with the adjacent 

 ifle of Anamboa, forms a large triangular bafon, of which the 

 ifle of Sandel Bofche, or fandal wood, is the weftern fide, rimor 

 was difcovered in 1522 by the companions of Magellan, who 

 found it full of white fandal wood. They report, that on this 

 archipelago the difeafe of St. -Job (which they interpret the in- 

 famous difeafe) reigneth more than in any other part of the 

 world. I fufpea it to be the horrid difeafe called by Bontius* 

 the Ainboynfe Pocken. 



The Portuguese attempted to make themfelves mafiers of this 

 ifland, but were obliged to abandon their defign, by a refiftance 

 of twenty years from the brave inhabitants. They had fettled 

 on the bay oi Cupang-, from which they were expelled by the 

 ■ Butch in 1613, who built a fort named Concordia. They keep 

 this ifland merely for the fake of making it an out-port to the 



* P. 33. Nat. Hift. 



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