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and the people who call thcmfelves Portuguéfe, àrê nöw as black
as the very natives.
I n refpeft to the nature o f the ifland, it confiils ö f Very high
land, abounding with good water, which ftreams from the
clduded peaks. Ternate, and every Other o f the Moluccas, have
their volcanoes : in 1693 that of Ternate burnt in a dreadful manner;
ftones and other matters are frequently caft out of the craters,
and noifes (by the force o f fancy compared to the crying of
many people) are almoft conftantly heard within the bowels o f
the mountains. I think it was at the fame time that the mountains
Kemas, or the lido brothers, in the diftriit of Manado, in the
jfle of Celebes, a part corfefpondent with Ternate, were blown up
with a dreadful noifê ; the found, like that o f thunder, reached
Ternate, attended with great darknefs, and the tremendous con-
Vulfions o f an earthquake. Through all thefe chains of iflands,
even to Banda, are -poifibly chambered galleries, which convey
the train from ifle to ifle, whenever the great Author o f Nature
diredts thofe awful admonitions.
T h e lift of the quadrupeds of the Moluccas is eafily made
Out : they have goats, deer, and hogs ; but the fpecies o f deer
are unknown to me.
T h e Molucca Opoßunt-, Hiß. Suddr. i. N° 218. Seb. Mus. i.
p. 64. tab. 39; is not only found in thefe iflands, but in thofe of
Arröu ; in the former they are called Coes Coes ; they are reckoned
delicate eating, and are frequent at the tables 6f the great,
who rear the young in the fame places in Which they keep their
rabbits.
T h e
T h e great bat called the Ternate, N° 495; the Cor dated,
N" 499; Schreber, tab. 48; and the Molucca, N9 508, a largeheaded
fpecies, Schreber, tab. 41, deform, I may fay, the fpicy
air o f thefe countries.
T h i s clafs is numerous, and o f fingular beauty; for want o f
further information I muft at once pafs to the parrot tribe.
H e r e are three fpecies o f cockatoos; a great one, defcribed
by Mr. -Latham, i. 256. PI. Enl. 263. 115. Raii.Syn. Av. 30.
Wil.Qrn. 112. tab. 15. This is as big as a common fowl, wholly
white, except the quil and lateral-feathers o f the tail, which are
fulphur colored. ‘
T h e next is the red crefted-, Latham, i. 257. PI. Enl. 498.
116. Edw. -tab. 160. The under part o f the c-reft is red; the reft
of the -plumage white.
T h e third is the lej/er white; Latham, i. 258. PI. Enl. -14. 118.
Edw. 317. This has the under part of the crefl fulphur colored,
and is left and more docile than the preceding, Thefe birds are
found in infinite numbers in all the iflands, and deafen people
with their fcreams ; yet ftill, by their fnowy plumage, give great
fpirit to the gloom o f the woods.
Gramineous Loeri; Latham, i. 279. PI. Enl. 862.132. Theleaft
brilliant of any; the crown and primaries pale b lue; a black ftripe
from each eye to the b ill; all the reft of the plumage green.
T h e r e are feveral other elegant birds, I poifibly might add to
thisdivifion; but as they are givenby ornithologifts toother iflands,
I here omit them, notwithftanding my fufpicions are ftrongly
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