jg6 SPICY ISLANDS. 



and the people who call themfelves Porluguefc, are now as black 

 as the very natives. 



In refpevSl to the nature of the ifland, it confifts of very high 

 land, abounding with good water, which ftreams from the 

 clouded peaks. Ternate, and every other of the Moluccas, have 

 their volcanoes : in 1693 that oiTernate burnt in a dreadful man- 

 ner; ftones and other matters are frequently caft out of the cra- 

 ters, and noiles (by the force of fancy compared to the crying of 

 many people) are almoft conftantly heard within the bowels of 

 the mountains. I think it was at the fame time that the moun- 

 tains Kemas, or the two brothers, in the diftridl of Man ado, in the 

 ifle of Celebes, a part correfpondent wdth Ternate, were blown up 

 with a dreadful noife ; the found, like that of thunder, reached 

 Ternate, attended with great darknefs, and the tremendous con- 

 vulfions of an earthquake. Through all thefe chains of iflands, 

 even to Banda, are poflibly chambered galleries, which convey 

 the train from ifle to ifle, whenever the great Author of Nature 

 directs thofe awful admonitions. 



QuADRUPBDs. The lift of the quadrupeds of the Moluccas is eafily made 

 out : they have goats, deer, and hogs ; but the fpecies of deer 

 are unknown to me. 



The Molucca Opojfum\ Hifl. ^cadr. i. N' 218. Seb, Mus. i. 

 p. 64. tah. 39; is not only found in thefe iflands, but in thofe of 

 Arrou\ in the former they are called Coes Coes ; they are rec- 

 koned delicate eating, and are frequent at the tables of the great, 

 who rear the young in the fame places in which they keep their 

 rabbits. 



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