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great deal of liveliness and courage. They are not so lusty as the inhabitants of 

 the Marianas, yet they are well proportioned, and of a shape much like those 

 of the Philippines. Both men and women let their hair grow long, and hang 

 loose on their shoulders. 



When they understood they were to be conducted to the presence of the 

 father missionary, they painted their bodies all over with a yellow colour, which 

 is considered as a great beauty. The oldest of these strangers was once before 

 cast on the coast of Caragan, in one of our islands. They are very expert at 

 diving ; and they say, in fishing they lately took two large pearls in their shells, 

 but threw them into the sea again, not knowing their value. 



These new Philippines, situated between the Moluccas, the old Philippines, 

 and the Marianas, which have been known near 200 years, are 87 in number, 

 and make one of the finest archipelagos in the east ; being enclosed on the 

 north and south between the line and the tropic of Cancer, and on the east and 

 west between the Marianas and the Philippines. Thcjugh these people seem 

 barbarous to us, yet they have among themselves a sort of politeness and regu- 

 lar government. Every island obeys its chief, who himself is subject to the 

 king of the country. This prince holds his court in the island of Falu, called 

 likewise Lamurrec. 



An Account of the new Island thrown up near the Island of Santerini. By 

 Mons. Bourgignon. N** 317, p. 200. 



On Monday the 23d of May, 1707, at sun-rising, we observed between the 

 two Burnt Islands, commonly called the Little and Great Cameny, as it were 

 a floating rock; which we thought at first had been some vessel shipwrecked on 

 that coast, and seemed as if it would in a little time be dashed to pieces against 

 the Lesser Cameny, that was hard by; on which account some mariners, in 

 hopes of booty, put out immediately to view it. Soon after we were surprised 

 to hear by them, that it was a shoal, which began to spring up from the bottom 

 of the sea, and was not as yet very plainly to be discerned. Next day several 

 persons went out of curiosity to satisfy themselves. Some of them went upon 

 this new shoal, which was still moving, and sensibly increased under their feet. 

 They brought back several curiosities, and among others a kind of oysters, 

 very large, and of an exquisite taste, which they found sticking to the rock, 

 and raised out of the water, as the shoal had increased in height; also a remark- 

 able find pumice-stone. 



Two days before the springing up of this shoal there was an earthquake over 

 the whole island ; and this was the only trouble and fear that this new island 

 gave us ; for from its first appearance to the 13th or 14th of June it has conti- 

 nually increased very sensibly, both in extent and height, being now about half 



