houfes were fomething like thofe of the other ifles ; rather
low,, and covered with palm thatch. Some were inclofed, or
walled round with boards; and the entrance to thefe was
by a fquare hole at one end, which at this time was fhut up,
and they were unwilling to open it for us to look in.
There were here about fix houfes, and fome fmall plantations
of roots, &c., fenced round with reeds2 as at the
Friendly Ifles. There were, likewife, fome bread-fruit,
cocoa-nut, and plantain trees ; but very little fruit on any of
them. A good many fine yams were piled up upon flicks,
or a kind of raifed platform ; and about twenty pigs, and a
few fowls, were running about loofe. After making thefe
obfervations, having embarked, we proceeded to the S. E.
point of the harbour, where we again landed and walked
along the beach till we could fee the iflands to the S. E. already
mentioned. The names of thefe we now obtained, as
well as the name of that on which we were. This they
called Mallicollo *; the ifland that firft appeared over the
fouth end of Ambrym is called Apee ; and the other, with
the hill on it, Paoom. We found on the beach a fruit like
an orange, called by them Abbi-mora; but whether it be fit
for eating 1 cannot fay, as this was decayed.
Proceeding next to the other fide of the harbour, we there
landed, near a few houfes, at the invitation of fome people
who came down to the fhore; but we had not been there
five minutes before they wanted us to be gone. We complied,
and proceeded, up the harbour in order to found it,
and to look for frefh water, of which, as yet, we had feen
none, but the very little that the natives brought, which we
knew not where they got. Nor was our fearch now attend-
Or Mallicolla. \ Some' of ouf people pronounced it Manicolo or Manicola, and thus it is
alfo writ in Quiros’ Memorial, as printed by Dalrymple, vol. ii. p. 146»
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ed with fuccefs; but this is no proof that there is not any. jw*
The day was too far fpent to examine the place well enough '
to determine this point. Night having brought us on board,
I was informed that no foul had been off to the fhip; fo
foon was the curiofity of thefe people fatisfied. As we were
coming on board, we heard the found of a drum, and, I
think, of fome other inftruments, and faw people dancing;
but as foon as they heard the noife of the oars, or faw us, all
was filent.
Being unwilling to lofe the benefit of the moon-light
nights, which now happened, at feven A. M. on the 23d) Saturda), 2J.
we weighed; and, with a light air of wind, and the afliftance
of our boats, proceeded out of the harbour, the fouth end of
which, at noon, bore W. S. W., diftant about-two miles.
When the natives faw us under fail, they came off in
canoes, making exchanges with more confidence than before,
and giving fuch extraordinary proofs of their honefty
as furprifed us. As the Chip, at firft, had frefh way through
the water, feveral of them dropped aftern after they had re- .
ceived our goods, and before they had time to deliver theirs
in return. Inftead of taking advantage o f this, as our friends
at the Society Ifles would have done, they ufed their utmoft
efforts to get up with us, and to deliver what they had alrea'dy
been paid for. One man, in particular, followed us a con-
fiderable time, and did not reach us till it was calm., and the
thing was forgotten. As foon as he came along-fide he held
up the thing which feveral were ready to buy;'but he re-
fufed to part with it, till he faw the perfon to whom he had
before fold it, and to him he gave it. The perfon, not knowing
him again, offered him fomething in return; which
he refufed, and fhewed him what he had given him before.
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