When We Came
Within Four Or Five Leagues Of This Island To The West Of Us, Four
Boats Came Off To View Us, One Came Within Call, But Returned With
The Other Three Without Speaking To Us; So We Kept On For The
Island, Which I Named Sir R. Rich's Island.
It was pretty high,
woody, and mixed with savannahs like those formerly mentioned.
Being to the north of it, we saw an opening between it and another
island two leagues to the west of it, which before appeared all in
one.
The main seemed to be high land, trending to the westward.
On Tuesday, the 2nd of April, about eight in the morning, we
discovered a high-peaked island to the westward, which seemed to
smoke at its top: the next day we passed by the north side of the
Burning Island, and saw smoke again at its top, but the vent lying
on the south side of the peak, we could not observe it distinctly,
nor see the fire. We afterwards opened three more islands, and some
land to the southward, which we could not well tell whether it were
islands or part of the main. These islands are all high, full of
fair trees and spots of great savannahs, as well the Burning Isle as
the rest; but the Burning Isle was more round and peaked at top,
very fine land near the sea, and for two-thirds up it: we also saw
another isle sending forth a great smoke at once, but it soon
vanished, and we saw it no more; we saw also among these islands
three small vessels with sails, which the people of Nova Britannia
seem wholly ignorant of.
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