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is very remarkable how little thefe birds are 

 afraid of man ; frequently they even alight on 

 the arm which is held out to them. Their fmcll 

 muft be by no means acute, the whole open- 

 ing of the noftrils confiding of only two trifling 

 flits in the upper mandible of the bill. This 

 mandible is moveable like that of parrots. 



We imagined that we had at length termi- 

 natcd the furvcy of this frightful chain of reefs, 

 which bar the fca for a fpacc of near iixty my- 

 riamckrs from fouth-eaft to north-wed; and 

 we were already at about two myriamctcrs and a 

 half to the northward of them, when at noon, 

 on the ill of July, our obfervation placed us in 

 latitude i8 50' ibuth, our longitude being 160 



3 2 ' ( 



We then fteered north -north-eaft, in order to 

 afrertam whether thefe reefs did not extend more 

 to the north-eaft. 



About two o'clock in the afternoon, one of 

 the fhip's company, named Moulin, difcovercd 



he northward, at the diftance of two myria- 

 mcters, a final I low ifland, covered with very 

 bufhy trees, and guarded by reefs which trended 

 to the weft north-weft. This ifland is not more 

 ni-myriamcter in circumference; it is 

 fituatcd in latitude 1S 31" 10" fouth, and longi- 

 tude 160 32' 14" caft. 



In compliance with the promife which the Ad- 

 n-cently made, this ifland was called 



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