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and head. They wear great ear-rings, and bones fluck through 

 their ears and noftrils. Men women and children go armed 

 with bows and arrows. 



After proceeding along the coaft farther eaftward, the dif- 

 coveries of our famous navigator Dampier thicken on us ; an 

 archipelago appears with the Crown I/!and, that of Sir Robert 

 Rich, another long ifland, Sir George Rooke's, and feveral others, Sir Georcs 

 many of which were adlive volcanoes. 



In Lat. j° 18' S. Bampier difcovered a new land to the 

 north, divided from New Guinea by a ftreight from fix to feven 

 leagues wide, each lide marked by a lofty cape ; to one he gave 

 the name of King Willianf^ to that on the north lide Caps 

 Anne, and within each was a very high mo-untain, Hoping 

 gradually to the fea ; the mountains and lower lands finely 

 cloathed with trees, intermixed with beautiful Savannas of the 

 moft flourifhing verdure. This northern land he named AVzy New Britain. 

 Britain. 



We will follow his track as far as will prove it to be an iiland', 

 or poffibly more than one. Let me obferve, that Dampier''^ 

 approach was the reverie from that which we now take. In 



Lat. 6' 10' fouth, he put into a bay named by himPor/M?;^/^^//. Port 



,^1 J 1 c n c • 1 II- 1 Montagu. 



The country was mountanous, wooded, full of rich values and 



jileafant ftreams of frefli water. The trees were of various 



kinds, fome in flower, others bore berries, and others large 



fruits, and cocoa palms in abundance, but the nuts were fmnll ; 



here were alfo yams, and other good efculent roots, and ginger. 



The quadrupeds were hogs and dogs ; pofTibly it was from 



hence that the South Sea ifles were flocked with thofe animals, 



being 



