39^ VOYAGE .IN SEARCH 



The free men wear their hair turned up with 

 a comb. The flavcs tie a handkerchief round 

 their head. 



The Chinefe, as is well known, received 

 fpices from the Moluccas many centuries before 

 the Europeans made themfelves mailers of them. 

 The Greeks and the Romans alio had a know- 

 ledge of them. This was for a long time the 

 object of the refearches of the firft navigators 

 who penetrated into the Indian feas. Thofe 

 valuable aromatics which were at that time 

 concentrated in a fmall number of iflands, have 

 fince been carried into very diftant countries, 

 where they thrive perfectly well. We have 

 reafon to hope that one day our colony of Gui- 

 ana will rival the Moluccas, and by procuring 

 for the whole world, at a moderate price, a 

 greater quantity of fpices, will bring them intq 

 more general ufc. They arc alio cultivated with 

 fuccefs in the Ifles of France and of the Re ? 

 union. 



We took on board the Recherche two docs 

 and a nag, with the intention of enriching 

 New Holland with this beautiful fpecies of qua- 

 druped. 



We laid in a good flock of fowls, ducks, and 

 Guinea geele. 



We did not bring away any cafTowaries *. 



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* Slruthio cajfuarius, Linn. 



Although 



