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XYiuch refemblance. Like them, his upper lip 

 proje6lcd confiderably beyond the under one. 

 They all made ufe of betel. None of them 

 wore any clothing ; but they were ornamented 

 with bracelets, to which they had faftened dif- 

 ferent fliells. Some wore a fmall bone in a 

 hole bored through the feptum of the nofe. 

 Others wore, flioulder-belt fafliion, rows of 

 fnells faflened to firings. 



Thefe natives gave us yams, which they Iiad 

 roafted in the afhes, and peeled very carefully. 



We faw in their poirciTion no other weapons 

 but darts, which were rather fliort, and were 

 fharpened only at one end. 



We diftinguiflied their huts, which, likethofe 

 of the Papuas, were erected with ftakes, from 

 tv.-Q to three meters above the ground. 



Thefe favages invited us to land on their 

 iflandj but feeing that we were drawing off 

 from it very perceptibly, for the rapid currenra 

 drifted us to the weflward, they quitted us and 

 regained their coaft. 



Two canoes were ftill quite clofe to the 

 Efperance at half pafl three o'clock, when we 

 faw three mufl-iet fl)ots fired from that fliip, 

 and the favages inft.intly running av* ay, paddling 

 with all their mic^ht. We foon learnt thut one 

 ot the canoes had pelted her people with Hones, 



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