^^^ P A P U A N I S L A N D S. 



OfFAK. ^vc to be found to the north-eaft of that of Ofa^, and among 



them is Manonanan *, an ifland of a middling height, preci- 

 pitous on the fides. 

 isiEsof Yowl. Tiie group of the httle ifles q^ Aiou or Tow/, are in about 

 Lat. o" 38' north, at feme diftance to the north-north-eaft of 

 Mamuanan, and inclofed in regular reefs t; the number of 

 ifiands is fixtecn. In the lefTer clufter is included Aiou Baba^ or 

 rather Aiou, the largeft of the whole, and of the height of more 

 than five hundred feet, and about five miles in circumference j 

 all the other irtands, except Abdon and Kon-ibar, are low. 

 Abdok. In the greater group are Abdon^ Konibar, and feveral others of 



lefier note.: the reef here forms a very confiderable bed, run- 

 ning from north to fouth, hut the reef itfelf muft be paflTed in 

 order to get at the ifles. Abdon is in Lat. 0° ^6' north. The foil 

 on this ifland and Aiou Baba is rich, and rudely planted with 

 Papmvs trecsy or Carica Papaya X, lime trees, or Citrus /imon, and 

 CapJIami, or Cayenne pepper ; Konibar with yams, potatoes, and 

 fugar canes. On Aiou Baba is a pool of frefli water ; that ar- 

 ticle is to be found by digging, eyen on th(p low grounds. The 

 fcas abound with fifli, turtle, and Suallo, which the Papuans fell 

 to the Cbinefe, who muft always be furnifhed with Dutch paflTes,. 

 Let me not leave thefe little ifles, without faying that Mr. For- 

 rejl met with the utmoft hofpitality from the natives, and from 

 Land OF the MoWooj, or chieftains, even a fpecies.of politenefs. Thefe 



iflands command a view of the lofty mountains of the land of 

 Papuas, or New Guinea, 

 Wh!-n dis- Here the reader may be told that this country was difcovered 



COVEiltD. ^ 



,• Forreft, 82. tab, xi. ^ Forreft, tab. 7. j Rumph. i. 145. tab. 50. 51. 



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