p. iff* As an addition to thefe inconveniences, the road were the fhips lay was a
dangerous fituation at this feafon of the year. At the full and change of the
moon fuch a prodigious fwell tumbled in here, the flaps rolled fo much, and
the tide drove in fo violently from, the weftward* that once during their ftay
they were obliged to put to fea for a week.
p. 118. Theiiland produces limes, four oranges, cocoa nuts, bread fruit, guavas, and
p. 121. paupaus in great abundance; likewife cotton and indigo in as great plenty; but
they found neither water melons, fcurvy grafs^or forrel.
p. i2i. The Tamar, being fent to examine the adjacent Ifland of Sapan, which is
much larger, rifes higher, and has a much pleafanter appearance than Tinian,
found in the woods many trees very fit for topmafts. They did not fee any
fowls, or any tracks of cattle, but of hogs and guanicoes there were plenty.
They found no frefh water near the place where they landed, hut obferved a
large pond inland. They faw large heaps , of pearl oyfter ihells thrown up
together, and other iigns of people having been there not long before. They
alfo faw many of thofe fquare pyramidal pillars which are to be found at Tinian,
and which are particularly defcribed in the account of Lord Anfon’s Voyage.
p. 122. The fick being at length pretty well'recovered, and two thoufand cocoa iluts
being laid in as an ant-ifcorbutic, in addition to their fea ftore, they left Tinian
on’ the ift of October, and proceeded without any material incident happen-
P* I25* ing till the 5th of November, when they anchored in a bay on the eaft fide of
the Ifland of Pulo Timoan.
p. 125. On landing they found the natives, who are Malays, a furly infolent fet of
people. But notwithftanding they firft put on a fhow of hoftility, a treaty
foon commenced. Nothing, however, was to be procured from them but
about a dozen of fowls, and a goat and kid; for the purchafe of which they
refufed knives, hatchets, &c. and demanded rupees; and as thefe were not
to be had, they vouchfafed to take in payment the beft of their pocket handkerchiefs.
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Thefe people are of a fmall ftature, but extremely well made, and of a dark
copper colour. Among them was an old man who was drefled fomewhat in
the manner of the Perfians; but the reft were all naked, except a handkerchief
which they wore as a kind of turban upon their heads, and fome pieces of
cloth which were faftened with a filver plate or clafp round their middles.
Their habitations are very neatly built of flit bamboo, and are raifed upon
pofts about eight feet from the ground. Their boats are well made1, and fome
were of a large fize.
The ifland is mountainous and woody, yet pleafant. It produces the cabbage
and cocoa nut tree in great plenty; but the natives did not choofe to part with
any of the fruits. They faw alfo fome rice grounds; but could gain no information
of the other vegetable produxftions of the ifland. There was excellent
fifh. in the bay, but the catching them gave umbrage. They purehafed an
animal here which had the body of a .hare, with the legs of a deer; and not
being able to preferve it alive, found the flefh excellent food. A ll the time
they lay here, they had the moft violent thunder, lightning, and rain, they
had ever known. Commodore Byron here remarks, that they certainly made
this paffage at an. improper feafon of the year; for after they came into the
latitude of Pulo Condore, they had nothing but light airs, calms, and tornadoes,
with violent rain, thunder, and lightning.
Finding that nothing more was to. be procured at this place, they failed
again ori the 7th, and on the 13th came to an anchor at an ifland called
Pulo Toupoa: here they faw a Hoop at anchor, which hoifted Dutch colours*
an officer was fent to fpeak with her, who was received on board with great
civility; but he was extremely furprifed to find that he could not:make him-
felf underftood; for the people on Board were Malays, without a fingle white
man among them. They made tea for the boat’s crew immediately, and behaved
with great chearfulnefs and hofpitality. The veffel was of a Angular
ConftEuaion; her deck was o f flit bamboo; and fhe was fteere.d, not by a
rudder, but by two large pieces of timber, one upon each quarter.
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