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C H A P T E K. XXIV.. 
Of the Produce of P E l t w, and of the Way of Life of the 
Natives . 
PROD 
C E. 
VERY part of the ifland called Cqorqoraa, of which 
Pelew was the Capital (as far as our people had op¬ 
portunities of making obfervations) feemed to bear the 
marks of induftry and good cultivation.—All the Elands 
which our people faw were well covered with trees of vari¬ 
ous kinds and fize, fome of them being very large, as may 
ealily be conceived by their canoes made out of trunks, 
which, when of the largeft dimenlions, were capable of car¬ 
rying twenty-eight or thirty men.—They had a great va¬ 
riety of timber-trees, among which was noticed the Ebony , 
and a tree, that, being pierced or wounded by a gimblet, 
there ran from it a thick white liquid, of the confidence 
of cream.—-They had alfo a fpecies of the Manchineel tree, in 
cutting down of which our people ufed to get bliftered and 
fwelled; the inhabitants pointed out the caufe, faying, that 
it 
