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CHAP. VI. — They depart from the &afi:ee Iflands, and faffing by fome others, and theNorth End of Luconia. — St. John's IJle, and other of the Philippines . — They flopat the two IJles near Mindanao ; where they refit their Ship, and make a Pump afterthe Spanijh Fajhion. — By the young Prince of the Spice Ifands they have News ofCaptain Swan and his Men, left at Mindanao . — The Author propofes to the Crew toreturn to him, but in vain. — The Story of his Murder at Mindanao . — The CloveIJlands. — Ternate. — Tidore, &c. — The Ifand Celebes, and Dutch Town of Ma-coffer. — They coaft along the Eafl Side of the Celebes , and between it and other Ifandsand Shoals with great Difficulty .— Shy Turtle. — Vafi Cockles. — A wild Vine of greatVirtue for Sores. — Great Trees : one excejfively big. — Beacons infiead of Buoys on theShoals . — A Spout ; a Defcription of them, with a Story of one. — Uncertain Torna-does. — Turtle . — The Ifand Bouton, and its chief Town and Harbour Callafufung. —The Inhabitants. — Vifits given and received by the Sultan .— His Device in the Flagof his Prow ; his Guards , Habit, and Children. — Their Commerce .— Their differentEfieem (as they pretend) of the Englifh and Dutch. — Maritime Indians fell others forSlaves.—Their Reception in the Town. — A Boy with four Rows of Teeth. — Parakites.
— Crockadores . a Sort of white Parrots. — They pafs among other inhabited Iflands. —-Omba, Pentare, Timore, &c. — Shoals .— New Holland; laid down too much north-ward. — Its Soil, and Dragon Trees. — The poor winking Inhabitants : their Feathers,Habit, Food, Arms, &c. — The Way of fetching Fire out of Wood .— The Inhabitants onthe IJlands. — Their Habitations, JJnfitnefs for Labour, &c. — The great Tides here.
— They defgn for the Ifand Cocos, and Cape Comorin .
THE 3d day of October 1687 we failed from thefe iflands, Handing to the fouth-ward, intending to fail through among the Spice Iflands ; we had fair weather and thewind at weft. We firft fleered fouth-fouth-weft, and paffed clofe by certain fmalliflands that lie juft by the north end of the ifland Luconia . We left them all on theweft of us, and paft on the eaft fide of it and the reft of the Philippine Iflands, coaftingto the fouthward.
The north-eaft end of the ifland Luconia appears to be good champaign land, of anindifferent heighth, plain and even for many leagues ; only it has fome pretty highhills ftanding upright by themfelves in thefe plains, but no ridges of hills or chains ofmountains joining one to another. The land on this fide feems to be moft favannah orpafture: the fouth-eaft part is more mountainous and woody.
Leaving the ifland Luconia , and with it our golden projects, we failed on to the fouth-ward, palling on the eaft fide of the reft of the Philippine Iflands. Thefe appear to bemore mountainous and lefs woody till we came in fight of the ifland St. John, the firftof that name I mentioned: the other I fpake of on the coaft of China ; this I have alreadydeferibed to be a very woody ifland. Here the wind coming foutherly, forced us tokeep farther from the iflands.
The 14th day of October we came clofe by a fmall low woody ifland, that lieth eaftfrom the fouth eaft end of Mindanao , diftant from it about twenty leagues. I do notfind it let down in any fea chart.
The 15th day we had the wind at north-eaft, and we fleered weft for the ifland Min-danao , and arrived at the fouth-eaft end again on the 16th day. There we went in andanchored between two fmall iflands, which lie in about five degrees ten minutes northlatitude : I mentioned them when we firft came on this coaft. Here we found a finefmall cove on the north-weft end of the eaftermoft ifland, fit to careen in or hale alhore ;
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