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Just b?ote ti^ evening cUfed in, bitt boa^
landed, and got a few cocoa-nuts which they
brought of, but saw none of the inhabitants. In
the night, during which We had rain and hard
squalls, I Rood off and on with the firips b and at
seven o'clock in the morning brought to offthe inlets
1 immediately sent the boats on shore in search of
refreshments, and made all the men who were not
so ill of the feurvy as to be laid up, go in them;
1 aifo went on Shore myfelf, and continued there
the wholeday. We saw many houses or wigwams
ofthe natives, but they were totally defeated,
except by the dogs, who kept an incessant howling
from tlie time we came on Shore til! we returned
to the fliip: they were low mean hovels, thatched
with cocoa-nut branches; but they were most
delightfully titrated in a fine grove of stately trees,
many of which were the cocoa-nut, and many
such as we Were utterly unacquainted with. The
Cocoa-nut trees seem to furnish them with almost
all the necessaries of life ; particularly food, fails,
cordage, timber, and vefl'cls to hold water; so
fiat probably these people always fix their habi
tations where the trees abound. V/e observed
the snore to be covered with coral, and the shells
of very large pearl oysters; so that I make no
doubt but that as profitable a pearl fishery might
be eflablifhed here as any in the world. We law
but little of the people, except at a distance ; we
could however perceive that the women had a
piece of cloth of force kind, probably fabricated
of the fame fluff as their fail, hanging from the
waist as lew as the knee; the men were naked.
Our people, in rummaging some of the huts,
found the carved head of a rudder, which had
manifedly belonged to a Dutch longboat, and was
very old and worm-eaten. They found also a
piece of hammered -iron,' a piece of brass, and
some small iron tools, which the ancestors of the
prefect inhabitants of this place probably obtained
from the Dutch flrip to which the long boat had
belonged, all which I brought away with me.
Whether tbefe people found means to cut off the
fliip, or whether (he was loft upon the ifla^d or
after ffie left it, cannot be known; but there is
rcafon to believe that fire never returned to Europe,
because no account of her voyage, or of any dif
toveries that fire made, is extant. If the ffiip
failed from this place in fafety, it is riot perhaps
cafy to account for her leaving the rudder of her
longboat behind her; and if foe was cut of by
the natives, there must be much more considerable
remains of her in the ifknd, especially of her
iron-work, upon which all Indian nations, who
have nd metal, set the highest value; we had no
opportunities however to examine this matter far
ther. The hammered-iron, brass, and iron-tools
I brought away with me; but we found a tool
exa&ly in the form of a carpenter's adze, -the
blade of which was a pearl oyster-shell ; possibly
this might have been made in imitation of an adze
which had belonged to the carpenter ofthe Dutch
fliip, for among the tools that I brought away
there was one which seemed t® be the remains of
Inch an implement, though it was worn away al
most to nothing.
Cl.de to the houses of tbefe people, we saw
buildings of another kind, which appeared to be
burying-places, and from which we judged that
they bad great veneration for their dead. They
were situated under lofty trees, that gave a thick
fiade; the lides and tops were of stone; and in
their figure they somewhat resembled the square
tombs, with a flat top, which are always to be
found in our Country church-yards. Near these
buildings we found many neat boxes full of human
bones, and upon the branches of the trees which
funded them, hung a great number of the heads
and bones of turtle, and a variety of fifh, inclofed
in a kind of basket-work of reeds: some of the
ssh we took down, and foand that nothing re
mained but the (kin and the teeth ; the bones and
entrails seemed to have been extracted, and the
muscular flefh dried away.
We sent off several boat-loads of cocoa-nuts,
find a great quantity cf feurvy-grafs, with which
the island is covered; refreshments which were of
infinite service to us, as by this time I believe
there was not a man among Us wholly untouched
by the scurvy.
The frefh water here is very good, but it is
scarce; the wells which supply the natives are so
small, that when two or three cocoa-nut shells
have been filled from them, they are dry for a few
minutes; but as they presently fill again, if a little
pains were taken to enlarge them, they would
abundantly supply any fliip with water.
We saw no venomous creature here; but the
flies were an intolerable torment, they covered us
from head to foot, and filled not only the boat,
the /hips. We saw great numbers of parrots
and parroquets, and several other birds which
were altogether unknown to us; we saw also a
Beautiful kind of dove, so tame that some of them
frequently came close to us, and even followed us
, into the Indian huts.
Alibis day the natives kept themselves elofely
con^&i, and did not even make a smoke upon
2nyrr of the inlands as far as we could fee; pro
bably fearing that a smoke might difeover the place
of them tetreat. In the evening, we all returned
on board the ship.
iThis part of the island lies in latitude 14° 29'S.
U"° s°' an d after I got on board, I
hauled a little way farther from the shore, intend
ing to vift the other island in the morning, which
bad been seen to the westward of that before which
the (hip lay, and which is distant about sixty-nine
leagues from t\ (Hands of Disappointment, in the
direction of W. half S>
The next morning, at fix o'clock, I made fail
for the island which I intended to vrfit, and when
I reached it, I fleered S. W. by W. close along
the north east fide of it, but could get no sound
ings: this fide is about fix or seven leagues long,
and the whole makes much the fame appearance
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at the other, having a large fait wafer lake in the
middle of it. As soon as the ship came in fight,
the natives ran down to the beach in great num
bers: they were armed in the fame manner as
those that we had seen upon the other island, and
kept abreast of the ship for several leagues. As
the heat of this climate is very great, they seemed
to fuder much by running so far in the fun, for
they foretimes plunged into the sea, and some
times fill flat upon the sand, that the furf might
break over them, after which they renewed the
race with great vigour. Our boats were at this
time founding along the shore, as usual, but I had
given ftriri orders to the officers who commanded
them never to molest the natives, except it should
become absolutely necessary for their own defence,
but to try all possible means to obtain their confi
dence and good will: our people therefore went
as near to the fliore as they durst for the furf, and
made signs that they wanted water; the Indians
readily understood them, and directed them to run
down farther along the shore, which they did, till
they came abreast of such a cluster of houses as
we had just left upon the other island; to this
place the Indians still followed them, and were
there joined by many, others: the boats immedi
ately hauled close into the furf, and we brought
to, with the fhip^, at a little diftahce from the
snore, upon which a flout old man, with a long
white beard, that gave him a very venerable ap
pearance, came down from the houses to the beach.
He was attended by a young man, and appeared
to have the authority of a Chief or King: the rest
cf the Indians, at a signal which he made, retired
to a little distance, and he then advanced quite to
the water's edge ; in one hand he held the green
branch of a tree, and in the other hegrafped his
beard, which he pressed to his bosom; in this at
titude he made a long oration, or rather song, for
it had a musical cadence which was by no means
disagreeable. We regretted infinitely that we
could not understand what he said to us, and not
less that he could not underhand any thing which
we should fay to him; to shew our good-will,
however, we threw him some trifling presents,
while he was yet speaking, but he would neither
touch them himfelf, nor fuffer them to be touch
ed by others till he had done: he then walked
into the water, and threw our people the green
branch, after which he took up the things which
had been thrown from the boats. Every thing
now having a friendly appearance, our people
made signs that they should lay down their arms,
and most of them having complied, one of the
midfnipmen, encouraged by this testimony of con
fidence and friendfllip, leaped out of the boat with
his cloaths on, and swam through the furf to the
snore. The Indians immediately gathered round
him, and began to examine his cloaths with great
curiosity ; they feermed particularly to admire his
waistcoat, and being willing to gratify his new
friends, he took it off, and presented it to them;
this courtesy, however, produced a disagreeable
elfed, for he had no footer given away his waist
coat, than one of the Indians very ingeniously
untied Iris cravat, and the next moment snatched
it from his neck, and ran away with it. Our
adventurer, therefore, to prevent his being drip
ped by piece-meal, made the best ofhs way back
again to the boat: flill, however, we were upon
good terms, and several of the Indians swam off
to our people, some of them bringing a cocoa-nut,
and others a little freffi water in a cocoa-nut fnell.
But the principal object of our boats, was to ob
tain some pearls; and the men, to assist them in
explaining their meaning, had taken with them
some of the pearl oyster shells which they had
found in great numbers upon the coast; but all
their endeavours were ineffectual, for they could
not, even with this assistance, at all make them
selves understood. It is indeed probable that we
should have succeeded better, if an intercourse of
any kind could have been established between us,
but it was our misfortune that no anchorage could
be found far the ships. As all Indians are fond
of beads, it can scarcely be supposed that the
pearls, which the oysters at this place contained,
were overlooked by the natives, and it is more
than probable that if we could have continued
here a few weeks, we might have obtained some
of great value in exchange for nails, hatchets,
and bill-hooks, upon which the natives, with
more reason, set a much higher value. We ob
served, that in the lake, or lagoon, there were
two or three very large veffcls, one of which had
two masts, and some cordage aloft to support
them.
To these two illands, I gave the name of King
George's Islands, in honour of his Majesty.
That which we last visited, lies in latitude 14°
41' S., longitude 149° ifW.; the variation of
the compass here was 5° E.
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encourage the publication of the R 0 YAL
AMERICAN MAGAZINE, ara hereby
informed, that the fubfeription papers will be re
turned to the intended publisher in a few days, in
order that he may afeertain the number fubferibed
for. Subscriptions are taken in by the printer
hereof.
N. B. The Introduction to the Royal American
Magazine (or number I. to he ornamented with
two elegant copper-plate prints) will be published
on the firft day of January next.
T O B E SOL D,
A"° USE and lot, in a very convenient situ
ation for any business, connected with water
carriage up or down Delaware, being near the Draw
bridge in this city, nearly opposite Capt. Donnell's,
where Mr. Andrew Doz lately lived ; also two lots
being 33 feet front on Queen-street, in the diftri& of
Southwark, and too feet deep, haring a good dwells
ing house erected thereon, with a pump of excellent
water before the door. Enquire of
JOHN MOYES.
BY Virtue of a VYrit, to me directed, will be
fold, on THURSDAY the nth day of
November inftanh at five o'clock in the evening, at
the London Coffee .House, a certain mtffuage or
tenement, and lot or piece of ground thereunto
belonging, situate on the weft fide of Front-ffreet
Continued southward beyond the city of Philadel
phia, containing in breadth 20 feet and in length
or depth 60 feet, bounded by Front-street aforefaid,
and by ground ofEdward Shippen, Esq; and others;
late the effate of Ann Reardon, Elizabeth Allen,
and Andrew Fitzfimmons ; seized and taken in exe
cution by Judah Foulke, Efo ; late High-Sheriff.
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
TH E Lovers of Literature will take
notice, that on Tburfday the 11th of No
vember instant, at HONEY and MOUSE's
Vendue Store, the upper end of Second-street,
will begin the sale of an assortment of NEW and
OLD BOOKS, and continue every evening,
Wednesdays and Saturdays excepted, until the whole
are difj,ofed of; printed catalogues of which will be
given gratis at the time and place of sale. Those
that have an, books to dispose of, and are willing to
take their chance by auction, are requested to fend
them as speedily as possible to the fubferibers, at
their Vendue Store, where proper attendance will
be given from eight till ten in the morning, and
from five till seven in the evening, or to William
Mentz, Book-binder, in Sterling-Alley, that they
may be in ferted in the catalogue. Those that will
favour us with their confidence may depend on the
utmost fidelity and care, from their humble servants,
honey and mouse.
AN AUCTION of BOOKS,
will be held next door to the Ship and Pilot
Boat, near South-street, below Mr. John Hart's,
by the fubferiber, who intends to begin the sale cf
a large and neat assortment of New and Old Books,
on the third Monday of this instant. New Books
to be put up at half price, and Old Books at what
the company pleases.
A Vendue cf Merchandize, Houfhold Furniture,
and Wearing Apparel, will be held orce or twice a
week at said auction room : Good security will be
given to those that fend quantities of goods, if
required.
Books, Ac. will be received at Mr. Nicholas
Brooks's near the Coffee-Houfe, and at the sub
scriber's near South street wharf, who presents his
compliments to those Ladies and Gentlemen who
have books, &c. to dispose of, and solicits their cus
tom. All possible care will be taken to please both
buyer and feller, by
ALEXANDER POWER.
N. B. The firft evening of Auction will be fold,
a gold watch, a few silver watches and some jewel
lery.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
On the iztli of November next, at 6 o'clock in the
evening, at the London Coffee House,
TH E four following lots of land and improve
ments thereon, viz.
No. 1. Containing eight and a half acres of land,
situate and bounding on the north fide of Frank
fort road, and on the weft fideof a lane 40 feet
wide, extending from the said road to Beulah Paf
chall's place ; there is a good dwelling house and
orchard on the premiles, likewise some good fruit
trees.
No. 2. Adjoining No. 1. and back of it, contains
ten and a half acres, bounded by the lane afore
faid, has a good dwelling house thereon, an or
chard of good bearing apple trees, and some
other fruit trees; about one half low bottom,
which is fine meadow, and a good spring of water
near the house.
No. 3. Adjoining and back of No. 2. bounded by
the aforefaid lane, contains better than twelve
acres, about two acres fine meadow, and about
two acres of fine low bottom, of which good
meadow may eafdy be made ; there is a small
orchard of good bearing apple trees on this lot.
No. 4. Adjoining No. 3. and bounded by the
lane aforefaid, and Beulah Pafchall's place north,
containsfull twelve acres, of which four acres are
fine meadow, a small orchard of apple trees, and
a row of fine large well grown English cherry
trees along the lane; the fituatiof iof this lot is
very pleasant, having an extensive profoe& of the
adjoining farms, and also over Point Richmond
to the river Delaware; all the above lots are under
good fence.
The situation of these lots renders them very con
venient for summer retreats, for the citizens of Phi
ladelphia ; the foil is well adapted to gardening, and
mav suit those persons well who attend the market,
as Frankfort road is one ofthe best leading to the ci
ty at all times of the year, the carriage of manure
from thence must be very easy at any season.
Plans of these lots may be seen at the London
Coffee House, or at Joseph Paul's tavern at Frank
fort, who will shew any person the premises. The
purchaser paying one half down, on giving good
security, may have fixmonths credit for the remain
der. For further information apply to
SAMUELCOATES.
Philadelphia, Gibber 21st, 1773.
TO BE S O L I),
Byway of PUBLIC VENDUE, at the Lon
don Coffee-houfe, on Wednesday, the twenty
fourth of November, at 6 o'clock in the evening;
A TRACT of PATENT LAN D,
containing 100 acres, situate in Baltimore
county, in the province of Maryland, about 35
miles from Baltimore town, in the settlement of
Little Pipe creek, and adjoining Lands of Anthony
Haines and others. Part of this land is already
cleared, some other part may be conveniently turn
ed into meadow ground, and the remainder is wood
land. For particulars enquire of WILLIAM
ROBERTS, near the premises, or of
REESE MEREDITH,
EDWARD PENINGTON,
THOMAS WHARTON, jun.
October 18, 1773.
THREE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN A WAY this morning, from the fub
feriber, a servant man named EDWARD
DOHERTY, but very probably may change his
name; he is about five feet two inches high, black
curled hair, of a dark complexion, wears a black
coat, old Iheepfkin breeches, dark coloured Hock
ings, and old shoes lately half-foled, but perhaps
may change his cloaths. Whoever takes up the
said servant, and brings him to the fubferiber, in
Oxford Townfliip, Chester County, fliall have the
above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
WILLIAM LAW.
EDWARD POL E,
G R O C E R,
HAS removed his GROCERY STORE
to the house lately in the tenure of Jedidiah
Snowden, in Market street, between Front and
Second-streets, and within three doors of John
Dunlap's printing-office, where he proposes carry
ing on the Grocery Business in general ; and he
requests the favour of his former customers, and the
publick, which he will endeavour to merit by a con
ftint application to befinefs, felling good Goods,
and on the lOweft terms,
N. B. The house wherein the said Pole formerly
lived is to be let, and is in an excellent stand for
business, situate in Second-street, between Chefnut
and Market-streets.
JOHN FIEL D,
At his store in Water-street, next door belovf
the south-east corner of Water and Chefnut
ftreets, hath just imported^ in the last ships from
London, Hull, Liverpool" and Glasgow,
AVERY general assortment of MERCHA N-
D I ZE; suitable to this season, which he will
dispose of on very low terms, for cash or ihort
credit.
Oflober 19th, 1773;
STRAYED or STOLEN,
From the fubferiber, out of Samuel Macriduff3
pasture, in Weft Nantmill townfliip, Cheftef
county,
AN iron grey poney, about ten or eleven hands
high, branded on the near buttock with a
brand unknown ; his main hangs naturally to the
near tide, trimmed under the bridle top, a small
hurt under the saddle, fliod before with one new
/hoe and an old one, upwards of four years old :
He was in very good order at the time. Whoever
takes up the said horse, and fends or gives notice
to Samuel Macelduff, to the fubferiber, or to John
Biddle at the Indian King in Philadelphia, shall
have TEN SHILLING S reward, and if Rolen,
for the thief, TWENTY SHILLINGS
paid by
JOHN SULLIVAN.
WANTS A PLAC E,
AW OMA N who can attend children, teach
them to read, write, and work at their needle,
and can also cook, and do the business of a house
keeper; she can be well recommended. Enquire of
the printer.
W A N r E D,
In a small family,
AVv OMAN that can be recommended for her
honesty and sobriety, and who understands
cooking and boufework: Very good wages will be
given to such a person, and no other need apply.
Enquire of the printer.
WANTE D,
AW OMAN of good character, to do the
business of a small family. Enquire of the
printer.
' N. B. None need apply but fach as can be well
recommended.
A few HOGSHEADS of
OATEN M E A L,
To be fold by Captain HUNTER, on board the
ship Alexander, at the wharf below Willing and
Morris's, by the hogshead or half hogdead, at
Thirteen Shillings per hundred.
Philadelphia, Au^uJi 20, 1773.
BATT's WINE AND SPIRIT STORE.
0 N the firft day of next month, THOMAS
BATT will open his wine and spirit store, in
Water-street, a few doors foutli of Walnut-street,
where he has laid in a large and valuable colle&ion;
viz. Old genuine Madeira, Lisbon, Mountain and
Teneriffe wines ; remarkable old spirits, Weft India
rum, and brandy; with a quantity of excellent
claret. He is determined to fell any quantity from
a pipe to a gallon, and to render the retailing of
liquors as complete and convenient to the pub
lic as it is in the power of expence and ftri& at
tention to do.
CHARLES EUSTAC E,
SURGEON and MAN MIDWIFE,
From St. Nicholas and the Lock Hospitals, Dublin,
TAKES the liberty of returning his unfeigned
and hearty thanks to his friends, and the
public, for their favours and protection since his
™ business in this city, and most re-
Ipectfully affiires them, his warmest endeavours shall
ever be exerted, to merit a continuance of their
esteem ; and he begs leave to inform his friends and
tne public, that he has removed from his late shop
, ° w Drawbridge, into Front-street, fix doors
above Market-street, where he has laid in a choice
and fe ect parcel of Genuine Medicines, chymical
and galenical; also a neat and valuable assortment
of the most ufeful Patent Medicines, which may be
depended on for their efficacy and genuine quality,
which he is determined to fell at the finalleft profits.
Turlington's Balsam, Hill's Balsam of Honey,
Bateman's Drops, British Oil,
Ai? a ^ y S ,F, Xir ' Godfrey's Cordial ;
Also Cook s fever and ague pills, one of which in
tantly cures the ague or fever, which thousands
have experienced ; Cook's worm powders, being
the gi eatelt fpecific ever made use of for destroying
worms in young or old."
' )e Do&or begs $ leave to recommend to bis
fnends and the public, in the warmest manner, a
medicine of his own composition, viz.
ESSENCE of HEMLOCK;
It being the only short and infallible cure for coughs,
colds, asthmas, shortness of breath, wheezing, con
lumptions of the longest landing, and °all dif
01ders of the breast and lungs ;it gently opens
the breast, and immediately gives liberty of breath
ing; it most effraually allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing, relaxes the fibres, and
thereby enlarges the cavities of the vessels, and takes
away tickling in the afp@ra arteria, heals rawness
and soreness of the lungs and stomach, and cures the
hooping cough in children; in short, the Dodor.
confident by the most undoubted proofs of its signal
virtues, which he brought to a perfection nonrican
equal, humbly recommends it to the use of tne
affli^ed.