GUI 3 
who had failed from Mexico, by the command: of Cortes to 
explore the Spice iflands from that quarter. It is faid that 
Soavedra called it New Guinea, froman apprehenfion that it 
was under the fame meridian with the Arican Guinea 3 but 
without admitting fuch a degree of ignorance in a profefled 
mariner, it ismore probable that this Le 
Maine near a century after, 
that of the * Ifles of Gold.” 
favoured by nature and no lefs enriched by the choiceit pro- 
dnd : 
I] 
the eff 
they afcend by a notched 
prevent furprife. The habita- 
on ftages in the water, thus 
eans and other nations in the A fiatic 
. 
it after them to 
black, ila and mar 
by the feProlye 8 
lips, efpe the upper one, exceedingly thick, woolly 
hair, e thning black, or fiery red, dreffed in a vaft buth 
refem amop, 2}or 3 feet in circumference, in which 
ie) 
w 
the coarfe Surat baftas, tucked 
up behind, fo as.to leave their bodie 
The. childrer 
R ildren 
ur tombs, made of oral rock, are fometimes 
marked with feu ¢ is wi 
Chinefe, from w: paciat their inftruments and 
utenfils, and in return they furnith them with ambergreafe, 
tls, birds of paradife, 
pericad 
feveral difcoveries on the coatt.o Papua, particularly 
the interior 
their flight 
a itrong gale toak like ravens, 
perior regions of the air. They alight 
commerce is with the bu 
GUT 
feeming to feed on -berries, and, as fome fay, on nutmegs 
and ea hs 3 and they are either fhot with blunt arrows, 
or caught with bird-lime, or noofes. The bowels and breaft. 
bone being extraéted, they are dried with fmoke and fulphur, 
fold for nails-or bits of iron, and exported to Banda. . Pa 
pua alfo boats of elegant parrots and lories ; and the 
crowned, or gigantic pigeon, almoft equal 
Some o mall iflar j 
watti ; 
agio 
fitness Auttralafia and the iflands in 
lago ; Gag and Gibbi, from their proximity to Gilolo, be- 
longing to the latter. 
iflands of Arroo and Timorlaut, - 
h 
E. of. Myfol, 
Archipelago, while Wolcket claffes with the Papuan iflands, 
Pinkerton’s Geog. vol. ii. y 4 
GU , a gold coin, ftruck and current in England. 
The value,’ or rate of guineas, has varied: this com was 
firft ftruck at the value of twenty fhillings ; 
of gold, it was afterwards advanced to. twenty-one fhillings 
The pound wei 
and a half; eac 
ARp, and Monry,. “ 
This coin took its denomination, guinea, becaufe the gold, 
whereof the firlt was ftruck, was brought from that part of 
frica, called Guinea ; for which reafon it likewife bore the 
impreffion of an elephant. - or : 
Gutnza Company. See Company. 
Guinea Hen. leagris 
See Numma Meleagris, 
Guinea hens naturally herd together in Jarge numbers 
an 
lay in houfes, but get into the hedges and among bufhes, where 
they lay and hatch 3 but this is the occafion of great lofs 
among them, the wild vermin deflro ing a great part 
brood. Leta about the great 
wre beft m 
fore, is to fet other fowl kj 
ft 
yard: its agility, and the fharpnefs of its 
iia ihe ior t 
