We Cut Up The Tree And Split It For Firewood.
It Was Much Worm-Eaten, And Had In It Some Live Worms Above An Inch
Long, And About The Bigness Of A Goose-Quill, And Having Their Heads
Crusted Over With A Thin Shell.
After this we passed by an island, called by the Dutch St. John's
Island, leaving it to the north of us.
It is about nine or ten
leagues round, and very well adorned with lofty trees. We saw many
plantations on the sides of the hills, and abundance of cocoa-nut
trees about them, as also thick groves on the bays by the seaside.
As we came near it three canoes came off to us, but would not come
aboard. They were such as we had seen about the other islands.
They spoke the same language, and made the same signs of peace, and
their canoes were such as at Cave's Island.
We stood along by St. John's Island till we came almost to the
south-east point, and then, seeing no more islands to the eastward
of us, nor any likelihood of anchoring under this, I steered away
for the main of New Guinea, we being now, as I supposed, to the east
of it, on this north side. My design of seeing these islands as I
passed along was to get wood and water, but could find no anchor
ground, and therefore could not do as I purposed; besides, these
islands are all so populous, that I dared not send my boat ashore,
unless I could have anchored pretty nigh; wherefore I rather chose
to prosecute my design on the main, the season of the year being now
at hand, for I judged the westerly winds were nigh spent.
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