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and Pulo Pifangf in Lat. 1° 50' fouth, moft beautifully covered 

 with trees *. 



Still more to the eaft of Ouby, is the triangular ifland of Mixaol; 

 Mixaol, of a moderate height, even at top i, and the fhore bold. 

 On the fonth fide is the fecure harbor oi Ef-be^ in Lat. 1° 12' Ef-ee Harbor: 

 Ibuth, with feveral piiturefque iflands off the entrance, one 

 in particular, named Crown ifland, topt with wood. Myfol is 

 well wooded, and writer is got there without any difficulty. 

 The village oi Linty confifts of about thirteen houfes, built in Village of 

 the water upon polls. The iOand is but very thinly inhabited ; 

 the natives reported that the birds of Parodife came there in 

 flocks from the eallward, fettled on the trees, and were caught 

 with bird lime. 



The Kanari iflands are a little to the north-weft of the weftern Kanari 

 end of Myfol \ they alfo are of a moderate height, and tolerably \ 

 even |, covered with wood, and the fides in fome places clifty. 

 They take their name from the timber being chiefly of that tur- 

 pentine kind called by Rumpbius, § Kanari. He defcribes, at p. 

 151? I54» '^SS') 156) and tab. 48, 49, many more kinds; they 

 grow to a great height ; fome afford very good mafts, and bear 

 an eatable oily nut. 



Off the north-eaft part is a clufter of little ifles, fuch as the 

 Canifier, the long, the round, and the turtle. On the firft is a 

 grove of the pine tree, called by the Malayes, Arrou ; none of the 

 Kanari ifles are inhabited. 



Eg and Popo\\ are two clufters of little ifles, lying in the clear Eo and Popo, 



* Forreft, tab. 6. f lb. tab. 15. + lb. tp.b. 15. 



§ Vol. ii. p. 141. tab. 47. 11 Forreftjtab. 8. 15. 



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