PAPUAS LAND. 



account of the Manillas, and if I recolledt right, one of thefe 

 iflands is called the ifle of Negroes, from its being inhabited by 

 a curled headed people. 



I NOW return fronn cape Biron, or Solomafwar, taking a 

 courfe due fouth, along the weftern coafts of the iiles of Nem 

 Britain. Near the extreme weikrn part of the fartheft is an 

 headland, called by Dampier, Cape Gloucejler. At a fmall diftance 

 to the weft is a little illand, which at the time our navigator 

 paired it, was a raging volcano. It flung up columns of flame 

 twenty or thirty yards high, attended with a noife like thunder, 

 followed by an overflowing of red-hot lava, which ran down the 

 fides of the mountain till it reached the fea. This continued 

 two days and nights, or as long as this tremendous phaeno- 

 menon continued in fio;ht. 



I NOW repafs Dafnpier's ftreights eaftward, and turn to the 

 fouth. In Mr. Arrowfmitb's excellent map of the world, NeiD 

 Guinea is continued by dotted lines, farther to the eaft ; and on 

 the fouth fide, near the extremity of that line, the uncertainty 

 is taken away by a trac!^ of land difcovered by M. de Bougainville 

 in 1768, which he named La Louifiade, and the extreme eaflern 

 point Le Cap de la Deliverance, in memory of his narrow efcape 

 from a violent tempeft. The great bay which he calls Le 

 Golfe de la Louijiade is juft to the fouth of the cape. Such a 

 confufion, occafioned by the fears and diftrelTes of the great 

 French navigator, is fo apparent in this part of his voyage, that 

 nothing more can be colleaed refpcding this portion of New 

 Guinea, 



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