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hiccx>% froca jivlience bavQ Nutmegs, and other va- * 
luable Spices. 
Tho^ tliefe People fecm barbarous to us, yet they 
among themfelves a fort of Politenefs and regular 
Gov^riiHienj:,^ Every I Hand obeys its Chief, who hina- 
Pelf is fubjed to the King of the Country. This Prince 
holds his Qourcinthe liland of fduy called likewifeJL^ 
fntmeo \ which multiplicity of Names feems to be the 
reafon why- we cannot find in this Map fcarce any of the 
Karnes mentioned in Father C/^/Vs Letter ; or perhaps 
becaufe at firh from the Natives pronunciation of the 
Names of their Iflands, they were written by the 
niArds after a difierent manner from what they are at 
prefen t. I 
Tho’ thefe lijands were never heard of in Europe ^ hill j 
w'ithin thefe five or fix Years, yet his a long time fince, 
from the High Mountains of Sanid they have difeover’d 
thick Smoaks on thatCoaft; which . commonly happens j ^ 
in Summer time, when thele Iflanders fet ‘fire to their . | 
\Yoods and Forefts to clear up the Ground. Thele ; 
Smoaks, whicli the VlihQrmQn of and other 
liiands, have alfo obferved when Tar out at Sea, have ^ 
made them conjedure, th^t there was Land Eahof the ' L 
Vhilqpius ; but they never had any certain knowledge , 
of it, till fomc time before the abovementioned Arrival 
of thefe iflanders. at Y/j.vW : Which happened thus. 
The King’s Brothev of thefe new Phiii^pmesy in a Sea 
Voyage, was driven on -the Coaft of C at agan^ in the 
great Illand of The Spmifi) Fathers, who 
have a very fine MilFion there, received this Prince with 
a great deal of Honour and Frieiidfhip, and intruded 
him in the ChriftU»2 Religion 5 which he was fo well 
pkas’d with, that he never thouglit of returning again 
to his own Cotiutry. ' In the mean time the King, dif- 
farisfy’d at the Lofs of his Brother, fitted, out a Fleet of 
aa hundred fmall Y effels, which he fent to every Illand 
under 
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