A VOYAGE TO 
1777- about the ddes of the lake, are covered with trees and 
»_ A _» bufhes of a mod: luxuriant growth; the lad: place having a 
great many mangroves, and the drft a vad: number of the 
faitanoo trees already mentioned.. There feem to be no 
rocks or hones, of any kind, about the illand, that are not 
coral; except in one place, to the right of the fandy beach. 
Where there is a rock twenty or thirty feet high, of a cal¬ 
careous ftone, of a yellowidi colour, and a very clofe texture. 
But even about that place, which is the higheft part of the 
land, are large, pieces of the fame coral rock that compofes 
the fliore. 
Beddes walking frequently up into the country, which 
we were permitted to do without interruption,, we fome- 
times amufed ourfelves in diooting wild ducks,, not unlike 
the widgeon, which are very numerous upon the fait lake, 
and the pool where we got our water. In thefe excurdons, 
we found the inhabitants had often defeated their houfes to 
come down to the trading place, without entertaining any 
fufpicion, that ftrangers, rambling about, would take away, 
or deffcroy, any thing that belonged to them. - But though, 
from this circumftance, it might be fuppofed that the 
greater part of the natives were fometimes colledted at the 
beach, it was impodible to form any accurate computation 
of their number; as the continual refort of vidters from 
other idands, mixing with them, might eadly midead one. 
However, as there was never, to appearance, above a thou- 
fand perfons colledted at one time, it would, perhaps, be 
fufdcient to allow double that number for the whole idand.. 
The place where fuch numbers adembled daily, and the 
bay where our boats landed, are. faithfully reprefented in a 
drawing by Mr. Webber.. 
To the North and. North Eaft of Annamooka, and in the 
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