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low and sandy, and all slightly crowned with a i 82 i. 
few shrubby bushes; the reef that encompasses Aug. 22. 
them seemed to be of great extent. 
The next day we were steering along the shore, 23 . 
and passed a sandy projection which was named 
Cape Baskerville, after one of the midshipmen 
of the Bathurst. To the southward of Cape 
Baskerville the coast trends in, and forms Carnot 
Bay ; it then takes a southerly direction. It is 
here that Tasman landed, according to the fol- 
lowing extract from Dalrymple’s Papua — “ In 
Hollandia Nova, in 17° 12 ' S. (Longitude 121°, 
or 122° E.) Tasman found a naked, black people, 
with curly hair, malicious and cruel ; using for 
arms, bows and arrows, hazeygaeys and kala- 
waeys. They once came to the number of fifty, 
double armed, dividing themselves into two par- 
ties, intending to have surprised the Dutch, who 
had landed twenty -five men; but the firing of 
guns frightened them so, that they fled. Their 
proas are made of the bark of trees ; their coast 
is dangerous ; there are few vegetables ; the 
people use no houses.’' 
At noon our latitude was 17° 13' 29". At four 
o’clock we were abreast of Captain Baudin’s 
Point Coulomb, which M. De Freycinet describes 
to be the projection at which the Red Cliffs com- 
mence. The interior is here higher than to 
