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Port of 

 Mansingham. 



Long Island, 

 schoutens'. 



Jamna and 



MOA. 



J.AND OF PAPUAS, OR NEW GUINEA. 



pafs, and full of trees. Here Captain Forrejl accompliflied the 

 end of his miiTion ; he found on it abundance of nutmeg trees*, 

 and paid five pieces o^baftas, his promifed reward, to any perfon 

 who difcovercd them. The fruit was pendent on the old trees, 

 and the young plants growing under their fliade. He took up 

 above a hundred, put them into baflcets with earth round them, 

 and then haftened on his return to Balambangan. 



Captain Forrest finidied his voyage at port Manjingham, 

 at a very fmall diftance from Dory harbor. The land from that 

 port recedes deeply to the fouth, and forms a large bay, gra- 

 dually narrowing to the bottom. In Mr. Arrow/mith's map the 

 lower part is under the fufpicion of being an ifland ; it is marked 

 on each fide with double dotted lines, expreffive of flreights, 

 which opens foutherly towards the Arrou ifles. The promon- 

 tory of Dory and Geetvinks Point are the two horns of this bay. 

 Long JJland lies at a fmall diftance to the north of Geetvinks 

 Point \ and in Lat. o° 46' S. is Schouten^^ named in honor of the 

 great circumnavigator who difcovered it in 16 16. It is about 

 twenty leagues in length, high and fertile, populous, and the 

 inhabitants an a6live race. The coaft extends far to the eaft. 

 Off it is a fuccefTion of fmall ifles, feveral of them volcanic, 

 and called by Scbouteni Fulcans, and by Dampier, burning ifles. 

 Jamna and Moa are other fmall iflands, well inhabited, and 

 abounding with cocoa nuts and various fruits. Captain Forrejl 

 gives us two prints reprefenting the natives and their canoes : 

 their hair is flatted on the top of the head ; fome decorate it 

 with a feather, and others bind a wreath round their temples 



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