They Have Also Wooden
Fish-Spears For Striking Fish.
Those that came to assault us in
Slinger's Bay on the main are in all respects like these, and I
believe these are alike treacherous.
Their speech is clear and
distinct. The words they used most when near us were vacousee
allamais, and then they pointed to the shore. Their signs of
friendship are either a great truncheon, or bough of a tree full of
leaves, put on their heads, often striking their heads with their
hands.
The next day, having a fresh gale of wind, we got under a high
island, about four or five leagues round, very woody, and full of
plantations upon the sides of the hills; and in the bays, by the
waterside, are abundance of cocoa-nut trees. It lies in the
latitude of 3 degrees 25 minutes south, and meridian distance from
Cape Mabo 1,316 miles. On the south-east part of it are three or
four other small woody islands, one high and peaked, the others low
and flat, all bedecked with cocoa-nut trees and other wood. On the
north there is another island of an indifferent height and of a
somewhat larger circumference than the great high island last
mentioned. We passed between this and the high island. The high
island is called in the Dutch drafts Anthony Cave's Island. As for
the flat, low island, and the other small one, it is probable they
were never seen by the Dutch, nor the islands to the north of Garret
Dennis's Island.
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