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being fhy, we chofe to ftrike them in the night (which is cuftomary in the Weft Indiesalfo) ; for every time they come up to breathe, which is once in eight or ten minutes,they blow fo hard, that one may hear them at thirty or forty yards diftance ; by whichmeans the ftriker knows where they are, and may more eafily approach them than inthe day, for the turtle fees better than he hears ; but on the contrary, the manatee’shearing is quickeft.
In the morning they returned with a very large turtle, which they took near theIhore; and withal an Indian of the ifland came aboard with them. He fpake the Ma-layan language; by which we did underftand him. He told us, that two leagues,farther to the fouthward of us, there was a good harbour, in which we might anchor:
fo having a fair wind, we got thither by noon.
This harbour is in latitude four degrees fifty-four minutes fouth ; lying on the eaftfide of the ifland Bouton, which ifland lies near the fouth-eaft end of the ifland Celebes,diftant from it about three or four leagues. It is of a long form, ftretching fouth-weftand north-eaft above twenty-five leagues long, and ten broad. It is pretty high land,
and appears pretty even, and flat and very woody.
There is a large town within a league of the anchoring place, called Callafufung,being the chief, if there were more ; which we know not. It is about a mile fromthe fea, on the top of a fmall hill, in a very fair plain, incompaffed with cocoa-nuttrees. Without the trees there is a ftrong ftone wall clear round the town. Thehoufes are built like the houfes at Mindanao ; but more neat: and the whole town wasvery clean and delightfome.
The inhabitants are fmall, and well fhaped. They are much like the Mindanayans infoape, colour, and habit; but more neat and tight. They fpeak the Malayan lan-guage, and are all Mahometans. They are very obedient to the Sultan, who is a littleman, about forty or fifty years old, and hath a great many wives and children.
About an hour after we came to an anchor, the Sultan fent a meflenger aboard, toknow what we were, and what our bufinefs. We gave him an account, and he re-turned afhore, and in a fhort time after he came aboard again, and told us, that theSultan was very well pleafed when he heard that we were Englifh ; and laid, that wefhould have any thing that the ifland afforded ; and that he himfelf would comeaboard in the morning; therefore the fhip was made clean, and every thing put in thebeft order to receive him.
The 6th day in the morning betimes a great many boats and canoes came aboard,with fowls, eggs, plantains, potatoes, &c. but they would difpofe of none till they hadorders for it from the Sultan, at his coming. About ten o’clock the Sultan cameaboard in a very neat prow, built after the Mindanao fafhion. There was a large whitefilk flag at the head of the raaft, edged round with a deep red for about two or threeinches broad, and in the middle there was neatly drawn a green griffon, trampling onawinged ferpent, that feemed to ftruggle to get up, and threatened his adverfary withopen mouth, and with a long fling that was ready to be darted into his legs. OtherEaft Indian Princes have their devices alfo.
The Sultan with three or four of his nobles, and three of his fons, fat in the houfeof the prow. His guards were ten mufqueteers, five Handing on one fide of theprow, and five on the other fide ; and before the door of the prow-houfe flood onewith a great broad fword and a target, and two more fuch at the after part of thehoufe; and ia the head and ftern of the prow flood four mufqueteers more, two ateach end*
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