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trees to the ifland of Bourbon^ and others were fent to the ille 

 of France ; another cargo was fent to the ifles of Secbelks. If 1 

 recoliecft right, we found on the Grenades nutmeg trees, when we 

 took thofe illands, which had been planted by the French. Thofe 

 Vv'hich had been tranfported to the ille oi France bore fruit, buty 

 1 believe, not to that perfection as they do in their native foil. 



Gag is a fmall uninhabited ifland, in Lat. 0° 18' fouth, but Gag. 

 has the advantage of a fafe bay, of frefli water, and of timber, 

 which induces people to touch there. Syang, another little ifle Syano. 

 north of the line, in Lat. o" 30', has alfo both wood and water; 

 Captain Forre/l procured the laft by obferving, that on cut- 

 ting a tree he calls the Arrow Plant, that water diftilled from 

 it; he then dug, and found a fpring. On a little fandy ille 

 called Pulo eye he met with the eggs of the turtle, directed to 

 them by the marks of the fins on the fand. 



Other fmall ifles, that lie a little to the north and to the 

 fouth of the line, in about Long. 127° eafl from Greenwich, may 

 be mentioned, to fliew the indefatigable induftry of our country- 

 men : fuch are Ruib and Een, or fifli ifle, to the north ; and to Ruib. 

 the fouth is JVaglol, a fmall flat ifle, the refidence of a fynagee. Waglol» 

 or chieftain, of the country, diftinguiflied by having half his 

 coat, and long drawers, clouded with red, white, and yellow ; 

 the other half with blue, white, and green ; the turband was 

 of white calico, pinked ; the clouded part of the drefs was Hin~ 

 doojian calico, dyed by the natives of the Moluccas. Some of 

 thefe chieftains are men of moil polifhed manners. 



Toiiioguy, and the two illands of Patang and Pally, form ToMccwr. 

 between them the fafe harbor of Manafum : a ftreieht four 



miles 



