NEW GUIKEA. 
SO mucli curiosity, that tbe portion of Ma narrative which 
treats of his interview with them is given helow in a 
note.* The vilhige lies about sixty miles to the north of 
the entrance of Dourga Strait, in lat. GP 15' S. 
♦ " On the 3rd of September, 1770, at daybreak wc saw the land 
extending from N. by to S. E,, at about foar leagues distance, 
and we tben kept staaiding in for it with a fresh gale at E.S,E. ajid 
E. by S. till nine o^elock, when being' within three or four miles of 
it, and in three fathom water, we brought to. The pinnace being 
hoisted out, I aet off from tbe ship with the boat's erew, accom- 
panied by Mr. Banks, who also took bis scn'autj and Dr. Solauder, 
being in all twelve persons well armed ; we rowed directly towards 
the shore, but t?ic water was so shallow lliat we could not reach it 
by about two hundred yards. Wc waded, however, the rest of the 
wavj having left two of the seamen to take care of the boat. 
" Hitherto we bad seen no sign of inhabitants at this place, but 
as soon as we got ashore we discovered the priats of human feet, 
wbioh could not long have been impressed upon the nuul, as they 
were below high water mark; we therefore concluded thiit tbe 
people were at no great distance, and as a thick wood came down 
within a hundred yards of the water, we thought it necessary to 
proceed with cautiouj lest we should fall into an ambascade, and our 
retreat to tbe boat be out oiT. We walked along the skirts of tho 
wood, and at the distance of about two himdred yards from tbe place 
where we lauded, wc came to a grove of cocoa-nut-trees, which stood 
upon the banks of a Uttle brook of brackish water. The trees were 
of a small growth, but well hung with fruit ; and near them was a 
sbedj or hut, which had been covered with their leaves, though most 
of them were now falleo off ; about the hut hiy a great number of 
the shells of ( he fruit, some of which appeared to be Just fresh from 
the tree. We looked at the fruit very wistfully, but not thinking it 
safe to climb, we were obliged to leave it without tasting a single 
nut. 
" At a little distance from this place we found plantains, and & 
bread-fruit-tree, but it bad nothing upon it ; and haTiug now ad- 
