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    features of these people, though remarkably irregular and ugly, yet
    are full of great sprightliness, and express a quick - Page 669
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The Features Of These People, Though Remarkably Irregular And Ugly, Yet Are Full Of Great Sprightliness, And Express A Quick

Comprehension. Their lips, and the lower part of their face, are entirely different from those of African negroes; but the

Upper part, especially the nose, is of very similar conformation, and the substance of the hair is the same. The climate of Mallicollo, and the adjacent islands, is very warm, but perhaps not at all times so temperate as at Otaheite, because the extent of land is vastly greater. However, during our short stay, we experienced no unusual degree of heat, the thermometer being at 76 deg. and 78 deg., which is very moderate in the torrid zone." - G.F.

SECTION IV.

An Account of the Discovery of several Islands, and an Interview and Skirmish with the Inhabitants upon one of them. The Arrival of the Ship at Tanna, and the Reception we met with there.

Soon after we got to sea, we had a breeze at E.S.E. with which we stood over for Ambrym till three o'clock in the afternoon, when the wind veering to the E.N.E. we tacked and stretched to the S.E. and weathered the S.E. end of Mallicolo, off which we discovered three or four small islands, that before appeared to be connected. At sun-set the point bore S. 77 deg. W., distant three leagues, from which the coast seemed to trend away west. At this time, the isle of Ambrym extended from N. 3 deg.

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