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BuERo. The ifland of Buero is a few leagues to the weft of Manipa 



and Keylan ; the fea round it is of a vaft depth, from whence the 

 fliore rifes gradually, and furrounds the whole ifland like a fteep 

 wall. The mountains feemingly rife to the very fky, and in 

 fome parts are fo lofty as to afpire above the clouds, and may 

 fometimes be feen at the diftance of twenty-eight leagues. The 

 circumference of Buero is about iixty leagues ; near the coatts it 

 is extremely well wooded, and productive of moft of the tropical 

 trees ; a green ebony and an iron wood is mentioned among 

 them. The ground in general is very fertile, but like the other 

 iflands much fubjedt to earthquakes. 



The inhabitants are almoft black, and both fexes go naked, 

 excepting when a wrapper covers their waifts : they were no- 

 minally fubjedt to the king of Ternate ; but in r66o the Dutch 

 built a fort, and compelled all the natives to live about the 

 bay of Keyel^ in fourteen villages neatly built of cane ; they alfo 

 compelled them to cut down and burn the woods, .and turn them 

 into fields, gardens, and orchards ; before that time they lived 

 in the moft wretched hovels. They bemoan their dead relations 

 with great lamentations, but after the corpfe is buried, they 

 make great rejoicings; they line the graves with brick, and 

 cover them with clay and ftones. 

 Weesels. In the mountains are the civet zveefel, Hift. ^lad. N° 274, 



from which the natives procure the civet, and fell it very cheap. 

 In this iiland is that very curious hog, called the Babyroujfa or 

 horned, K' 79, the Sus Babyruja of Linnaus, Seb. mus. i. p. 80. 

 tab. 50 ; Rati. <sluad. p. 96 ; Bonlius, Jig. 61 ; Gre'zv, p. 27 ; Nieu- 

 hoffy p. 195. tab. p. 96 ; and de Bteffmify^n. p. 379. 



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