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it is extremely narrow the whole way ; the greateft part runs 

 north-weft, but towards the eaft end, reverts and bends like a 

 hook to the fouth, terminating in cape SL George. 



Beyond thefe was a group of fmall ifles Mr. Carteret 

 named the Admiralty -^ in Lat. 2° 18' fouth. Long. 146° 44' eaft. 

 By the views of them they appear lefs elevated than Hanover 

 ifle, and we may collect, from the multitudes of canoes that 

 fallied out to attack our commander, that they muft be very 

 populous; they were manned with people nearly black, with 

 woolly heads. The natives were very hoftile, and flung with Natives. 

 great force lances headed with flint; they chewed betel, went 

 quite naked, but their bodies were ornamented with fliells, their 

 faces ftreaked with white, and their heads as finely powdered 

 with white powder as an Englijh beau ready for a Bal pare. 

 One of their canoes, apparently the leaft, was taken, yet it mea- 

 fured full fifty feet in length. In it were fpecimens of their 

 arts, fuch as earthen pots, in which they drefied their vi6tuals, 

 and a quantity of matting which ferved for fails and awnings ; 

 there were befides cocoa nuts, and other fruits unknown to our 

 people. 



Some of the canoes of New Ireland were ninety feet long, Canoss. 

 formed out of a fingle tree ; a proof of the vigorous growth of 

 timber in this country; they were manned by three and thirty- 

 men, black and woolly headed, but they had not the thick hp or 

 fiat nofe ; in ornaments and powdering they refembled the for- 

 mer ; fome had cock's feathers in their heads, a proof that they 

 did not want poultry. They had lances by way of arms, and cord- 

 age and filling nets very fkilfully manufactured ; all this coun- 



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