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them too, they were naked, or had only a rag about their 

 waift. Their faces are neither ftaincd nor painted. They 

 catch a quantity of fifh called Seajan, which they carry to 

 Loheia, and exchange for Dora and Indian corn, for they 

 have no bread, but what is procured this way. They alfo 

 have a flat fifh, with a long tail to it, whofe fkin is a fpecies 

 of fhagreen, with which the handles of knives and fwords 

 are made. Pearls too are found here, but neither large nor 

 of a good water, on the other hand, they are not dear ; they 

 are the produce of various fpecies of fhells, all Bivalves * 



The town confifts of about thirty huts, built with fag- 

 gots of bent grafs or fpartum, and thei e are f iipported with- 

 in with a few flicks, and thatched with the grafs, of which 

 they are built. The inhabitants fecmed to be much terri- 

 fied at feeing us come a-fhore all armed ; this was not done 

 out of fear of them, but, as we intended -to flay on fhorc all 

 night, we wifhed to be in a fituation to defend ourfelves 

 againfl boats of flrollers from the main. The faint, or Ma- 

 rabout, upon feeing me pafs near him, fell flat upon his 

 face, where he lay for a quarter of an hour ; nor would he 

 get up till the guns, which I was told had occafioned his 

 fears, were ordered by me to be immediately fent on board. 



On the 7th, hy an obfervation of the meridian altitude 

 of the fun, I found the latitude of Foofht to be 15 59' 43" 

 north. There are here many beautiful fhell-fifh; the con- 

 cha veneris, of ieveral fizes and colours, as alfo fea urchins, 



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Sec the article Pearl in the Appendix. 



