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Native*. 



Peows. 



NEW Ireland: 



fliip was farroiinded with prows filled with men, who affaiilted 

 him with Hones flung out of engines ; and the fliores were 

 lined with the natives from end to end. All the inhabitants of 

 this, and the adjacent ifles, were a v/arlike race, hoftile to 

 llrangers, and very fufpicious. They were tali, even above the 

 fize of the common race of men, ftrong, and well made, had 

 curled fliort hair, often lliaved in tlitferent forms, and ftained 

 with white, red, and yellow ; their heads were round, faces broad ; 

 they had great bottle nofes, and fubftances ftuck through the 

 griftle, palling from cheek to cheek. Their weapons were lances, 

 fwords, flings, and bows and arrows ; their fpeech clear and dif- 

 tind. All thefe are the fame kind of people, from the remoteft 

 of the Papuan ifles to this ifland ; varying a little in the drefllng 

 of their hair, and other trifling matters. 



Their prows were very neatly built, with out-riggers on 

 one fide ; the head and fl:ern elevated, and moll ingenioufly 

 carved with figures of fifli, fowl, and on one was a man's 

 head, done moft furprifingly well, confidering the rude in- 

 ftruments of Hone they had to work with ; for they feemed 

 ignorant of the ufes of iron ; their paddles were very neat ; 

 and they made their way with amazing fwiftnefs through the 

 water. 



A VERY legendary tale is told, in VUlJloire de Navigations aux 

 I'erres Aujlrales *, refpedting the origin of the Negro race in 

 thefe Afiatic ifles, which is firft met with in feme of the Manillas^ 

 continued through the Papuan ifles and Nev) Guinea^ and even 

 through New Holland, I have mentioned them before in my 



*P.434. 



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