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live on "yams and fish," cocoa-nuts, and have "pigs and fowls : " on leaving, Quiros carried away 

 four of the natives. One of these (according to Hale ethnogr. 168 to 195) was a native of Chikayana, 

 four days sail from Taomaco and two days from Guaytopo (Vaitupu), had seen people of Guaytopo, 

 driven out of their course in seeking " tortoise-shell of which they make ear-rings," and described 

 the women as wearing "a veil of blue or black called foafoa ; " he further stated that a great pilot, a 

 native of Taomaco, had procured "from a large country named Pouro " (Bouro) "arrows pointed 

 with a metal as white as silver" — {tin from the Malayan archipelago). Confirmation is found in 

 Rienzi ocean, iii. 384 meeting with a Eugis captain who had visited the Solomon Islands : and Hale 

 found the natives of Vaitupu " wearing ear-rings of tortoise-shell, a very unusual ornament in Poly- 

 nesia," and the women, a " long fringe of pandanus leaves called fou." (See Burotu.) 



From information procured at Taomaco, Quiros now sailed southwest, and "in 12^°" found "an 

 island of the size of that of Taomaco with the same sort of people," and "called Chucupia ; " the 

 natives offered peace, and "presented the husk of a tree, which looked like a very fine cloth" 

 (tapa). Continuing South, and afterwards "a day's sail" West, a volcano was discovered, "very 

 high and thick, more than three leagues in circumference" (Tanna), "and with black inhabitants 

 with thick beards" {Papuans) : "to the west, and in sight" at "the distance of eight leagues," was 

 an island "well peopled with black inhabitants " {Negrillos), two of whom were caught, and "were 

 clothed and fed, and the next day put on shore," but at a port "a gunshot further on" a Spaniard 

 was wounded with an arrow : in sight and all around " were many very high and large islands ; " and 

 "going southwards," one of these islands was found " May 1st " to contain a bay fifteen or sixteen 

 leagues in circumference, "well inhabited and very fertile, with yams and many fruits, pigs, and 

 fowls; all these people are black and naked" {Negrillos'), "fight with arrows, javelins, and large 

 clubs ; they never would be friends with us, although we spoke together many times, and I treated 

 them; I never set foot on shore with their good will, as they always wished to oppose it, and we 

 always fought with little risk; " the island received the name of " Espiritu Santo " (the largest island 

 of the New Hebrides) ; the bay is "in 15 20'," is "very fresh, and has many and large rivers," and on 

 the "6th," Quiros took formal possession, "and of the Austral regions to the pole," in the name 

 of the king of Spain: "June nth," Quiros, a Portuguese among Spaniards, was prevented by his 

 mutinous crew from making farther explorations ; but arrived safely with his ship at Navidad in 

 Mexico " Oct. 20th." 



Torres, in command of the second ship, knowing only that the flagship went forth "at one 

 o'clock after midnight " without " making signals," spent " fifteen days " in a fruitless search, opened 

 the king's orders, and proceeded south-west a degree beyond the latitude named (40 S.) without 

 seeing land. Turning "north-north-west as far as n^°," he "fell in with the beginning of New 

 Guinea" (the Southern point of Louisiada), and as he " could not go up it by the east side," "went 

 coasting to the west, and on the south side it is all the land of New Guinea; it is peopled by Indians 

 who are not very white, and naked, though their middles are well covered with the bark of trees, after 

 the manner of cloth, much coloured and painted" (tapa) ; "they fight with javelins and bucklers, and 

 some stone clubs, with many gaudy feathers about them.'' " Having run three hundred leagues of 

 coast" to "9°," a bank begins "which stretches along the coast until 7^°, and the extremity of it 

 is five;" he was therefore obliged to go out South-west to "n°," and keep in the deep channel ; 

 "there were some very large islands, and more were seen towards the south ; they were inhabited 

 by black people, naked, and very corpulent" {Papuans), having "for weapons some thick and long 

 lances, many arrows, very uncouth stone clubs." Following "this shoal for two months" to " 5 , 

 and ten leagues from the coast, and we had gone four hundred and eighty leagues ; here the coast 

 trends to the north-east" (he had passed through what are now called Torres Straits). Running to 

 the North "as far as 4 , when we fell in with a coast which also stretched from east to west," under- 

 stood to be continuous with that left behind, and "inhabited by black people, different from all the 

 rest " " more o-audily adorned ; they also use arrows and javelins, and very large shields, and some 

 blow-pipes of cane full of lime which they discharge;" continuing "west north-west beside the 

 coast, always finding these people, though we landed in several places," also meeting with " the first 

 iron and bells of China, and other things from there," we went " a hundred and thirty leagues, so that 

 the extremity would remain at fifty leagues distance : " at the extremity " we found some clothed 

 Moors, with artillery," "arquebuses, and white weapons; they go conquering these people who are 

 named' Papuas {Negrillos), and preach to them the sect of Mahomed; these Moors traded with us, 

 sellino- us fowls, and goats, and fruit, and some pepper and biscuit, which they call saga," and "gave 

 us news of the events in the Moluccas, and of Dutch ships, though they had not reached here." 



"July 26th " (Lesc. iv. 12), De Monts and Poutrincourt on their Second voyage arriving at Port 

 Royal, where they found two survivors of the party left behind. In the forest around, Lescarbot vi. 

 24 met with " chenes " {Quercus rubra), " Irenes " {Fraxinus sambucifolia), " bouleaux fort bons en 

 menuiserie" {Detula lenta), " erables " {Acer ritbrum), " sycomores " {Acer saccharinum), " aube- 



