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try is probably well inhabited, and very fertile in trees and 

 fruits ; the fea abounding in turtle and fifli. The very diftreffed 

 flate of Captain Carteret and his crew, is the fad but true apo- 

 logy for our wanting, from his able pen, a fuller account of this 

 iatercftingilland. 



On July 5th 1768, M. Bougainville anchored in the fame bay as 



' Captain Carteret did, and named it Port Prajlin. He obferved 



here the pepper plant, and found wild hogs, numbers of birds, 



and among others the great crowned pigeon ; variety of fnakes, 



fcorpions, and the lingular infcdt the walking leaf. 



Among the ferpents was the fea fnake, of that fpecies which, 

 at p. 13T, is fufpefted to have been poifonous ; this was verified 

 here. A failor was bitten as he was bawling the Seine^ he was 

 very foon affe6led with violent pains all over his body ; his fide 

 (the part on which he received the wound) became livid, and 

 fwelled greatly ; the blood taken from him appeared diffolved : 

 he fuffered much for five or fix hours; at length, by the afliftance 

 of the Venice treacle, or 1'beriaca Andromacbi^ W\\\i flower de luce 

 water, he fell into a violent perfpiration, and was quite cured *» 

 The natives of Otaheite afl"ert that the bite is mortal. 



Dampier coafted the whole northern fide. Captain Carteret^ 

 in his approach to the eaftcrn end, fell in with a group of little 

 illes, to which he gave the name of the nine ifles. He paflfed 

 between two larger, the more fouthern he called Lord Anfo?2's\ 

 the more northern, Sir Charles Hardy z, .in Lat. 4° 50' fouth, 

 was flat, verdant, and appeared well inhabited. He foon after 

 i^lanT&J. ^^^ ^^' y^^-'^'^ i^^^' difcovered by Schouten, and {z^w by Dampier. 



* Bougainville's Voyaoc, tranflaticn, p. 334. 



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