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that period it has certainly advanced a few paces isis* 
in civilization ; but in other respects, as to its 
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natural and artificial productions, it is perfectly 
conformable to that account. 
Coepang is also known by its hospitable re- 
ception of Lieutenant (the late Admiral) Bligh, 
after the mutiny of the Bounty’s crew ; and in 1802 
it was visited by Captain Flinders and Commo- 
dore Baudin: each of these navigators have 
spoken warmly of the hospitality they experi- 
enced, and I should be doing an injustice to Mr. 
Hazaart if I omitted a due acknowledgment of his 
kind attention to our wants, and of the prompt 
assistance he afforded us in our operations. 
The presence of a fleet of Malay proas in the 
roads has been before mentioned; it had just 
returned from an unsuccessful voyage on the south 
coast of Timor in search of trepang. Dramah, 
the principal rajah of this fleet, gave me the fol- 
lowing information respecting the coast of New 
Holland, which he had frequently visited in the 
command of a fleet that annually frequents its 
shores. 
The coast is called by them “ Marega,” and has 
beenknown to them for many years. A fleet, to the 
number of 200* proas, annually leaves Macassar 
This number is perhaps very much exaggerated. 
