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Title: A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Burney, James, 1750-1821
Subjects: Voyages and travels Buccaneers
Publisher: London : Printed by Luke Hansard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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yams, and pork; and theyseemed to understand us, for they pointed to the land, and soonafter departed. These people are black as Hottentots can be;their hair is of different colours, which is caused by powderingit with lime and ochre; they paint their faces red, the foreheadexcepted; and some among them had something white as bigas a little finger sticking through their noses. They came withoutarms, and were without covering except some green leaves roundtlieir middle. Their canoes had each one outrigger. At noon,our latitude was 2° 53 S; longitude 168° 59- In the afternoon,we had a good breeze from the SE. At night the wind wasfrom the land, and weak. 7th. The 7th, we had little wind. Some canoes came from the * These words are from Le Maires Vocabulary of the Salomon and Cocos Islandlanguage. The Islands at which Tasman had lately stopped, made these wordsfamiliar to him and his people, and occasioned their beiug now tried before thewords of the New Guinea Vocabulary. shore, *^ ^
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A B E L J A N S E N T A S M A N. ^99 shore, and after signs of invitation being made to tlieni, came ch.». p. 4.along-side. We bought of them a shark (which they call Isdaxa) 1643.and a dorado, for Avhich we gave three strings of beads, and a ^P-cap. At going away, they altogether set up a loud shout. Atnoon, our latitude by account was 2° 35 S ; longitude 168° £5.Westward of us, the land begins to be very low, but the coastextends as far as we could see WbN and WNW. In the after-noon, we saw high land bearing WbN and West, distant bjestimation 10 miles. We had a current setting along the coastalways in our favour. In the night we passed a large Bay. The 8th, in the morning, we sailed by four low Islands, and as Sth.we passed them, found three more small Islands together nearthem Westward, which we passed before noon. Our latitudeat noon by account was 2° 26S; longitude 167° 39- WindEasterly but variable. Found the variation here lO NEasterly.In the afternoon, we came near a low

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