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themfelves with the Skins of wild Beads, which affords but little warmth againft 

 the Cold that is here in Winter. Their Huts confift of Trees, and are made round 

 at bottom, and fharp on the top like a Tenc, having onely a Hole for the Smoak 

 to go out at ; they are digg'd three Foot deep into the Ground, and alfo heap'd 

 round with Earth ; within the Huts nothing is to be found but Baskets with Fifli- 

 ing Utenfils and Stone Hooks. Their offenfive Arms the Men always carry about 

 with them, becaufe they always maintain Wars with their Neighbors. They han- 

 dle a Quarter-ftaffvery dextcroufly, are good Slingers and Bowemen . they alfo 

 ufe Lances with (harp Stone Points. Moreover they make Boats of the Bark of 

 Trees, which they firft cut out into a Form, then fewing it together, bow the 

 fame after the manner of a Boat, which rifes before and behind, and being fifteen 

 or fixteen Foot long, can carry eight Men, going exceeding fwift. Thefe People 

 are not onely beaftial in their Practices, but alfo Murderers, 



Laftly, befides the Straights of Le Maire, Henrick Brewer hath found a new Paf- 

 fagetothe Eaftward above the States -IJland, out of the Northern Ocean to the 

 South Sea. 



CHAP. IV. 

 The unknown South-Land. 



THe unknown South-Land extends with feveral Points to the Southern 

 Ocean, which have been more feen than difcover'd by divers Nations. 

 Oppofite to the Eaft-lndia Ifland Gilolo, lies Terra des Tapous, to which 

 Jacob LeMaire gave the Denomination of New Guinee. 



The Engltjh Commander, Orchard Hawkins, Sailing to the Southward behind 

 <Papou, found the Inhabitants black like 2{egro's : round about appear feveral Ifles 

 and convenient Harbors. Herrera places here on the Eaft, the Countrey Agnada, 

 the Road St. J ago, the Ifland Los Crefpos, the Haven Andreas, the River Virgmum, and 

 the little Ifle La VeUena, before the Mouth of the Stream Jugufline. Next you meet 

 Eafterly with the Rivers St. <Peter and St. Paul, the Havens Hieroyiymus , the Ifles funia 

 Salida, Ahrigo, Malagcnte, and Maure de Dios, inhabited by white People. 



Thefirft that difcover'd New Guinee, Anno 1 520. was Jlvaresde SaVedra, who, Di***^ 

 as alfo feveral others befides him, fuppos'd that fome of the Illands Solomons border a^T^T- 



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New Guinee. 



Eighteen of the many Solomon Ifles exceed the reft, of which fome are three hun- 

 dred Leagues in circumference, fome two hundred, others one hundred, and fome 

 fifty : All that are inhabited have a fruitful Soil, producing all manner of Provi- 

 sions, particularly Hogs and Poultrey. The Natives differ very much one from 

 another, for fome are black, others white or tawny. 



The fore-mention'd Hawkins in his Voyage towards the Straights of Magellan, 

 fuppofing it by eftimation to be fifty Leagues from the Main Coaft of America, dif- 

 cover'd forty Degrees to the Southward of the Equinotl'uil Line, with a Wefterly 

 Wind, the unknown South-Land j wliich he found to confift of low Land, and to 

 be inhabited, by reafon of the many Fires which he faw afhore in the Night. 



The Spanif) Commander, feterfernandes de Quiro, and the Admiral Lodoinick Taes 

 deTorres, have made a farther Difcovery of this Countrey ; for Landing on the 



South- 





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