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We likewlfe made a beverage which refetnbled goat’s milk *, by rafping the nut, mixingtt with the liquor, and {training the liquor through a cloth. The cocoa-trees referablethofe palm-trees which produce dates f, but their trunks, without being very fmooth,have not fo large a number of knots. A family of ten perfons might be fupported fromtwo cocoa-trees, by alternately tapping each every week, and letting the other reft, thata perpetual drainage of liquor may not kill the tree. We were told that a cocoa-treebves a century.
The iflanders became very familiar with us, by which means we were enabled tolearn from them the names of many things, efpecially furrounding objects. Fromthem alfo we learnt that their ifland, which is not very large, is called Zuluan. Theyyere polite and well behaved. Out of friendfhip towards our captain they took himln their canoes to the warehoufes where they kept their merchandize, cloves, for ex-a mple, cinnamon, pepper, nutmegs, mace J, gold, &c. &c.; and by figns informed usthat the countries towards which we direfted our courfe produced thefe articles inabundance. The captain-general in return invited them on board his veffel, wherehe fpread before them whatever by its novelty was likely to fix their attention. Atthe inftant they were about to depart he caufed a bombard to be fired, which ftrangelyfrightened them, fo much indeed that they were on the point of throwing themfelvesln to the fea in order to get away ; but, with little difficulty, w 7 e fucceeded in perfuadingthem that they had no caufe for apprehenfion, and they left us at length tranquillized,jtnd with courtefy aflured us, as they had promifed before, that they would returnjnimediately. The defert ifland on which we had landed was called Humuna by thedlanders; but we gave it the name of Acquada degli Buoni Signali (the Watering-place°f Good Promife), on account of our finding here two fountains of excellent water,an d the firft indices of gold in this country. Here alfo white coral is found; andthere are fome trees, the fruit of which, fmaller than our almonds, referable the kernel°f.the pine cone§. Many kinds of palm are like wife feen, fome of which yield fruitg°od to eat, while others produce none.
. Perceiving around us a number of ifiands on the fifth Sunday of Lent , which alfois the feaft of St. Lazarus, we called the archipelago by the name of that laint ||. Itues in ten degrees of north latitude, and one hundred and fixty-one degrees of longituder °m the line of demarcation
On Friday, the 22d of the month, the iflanders kept their word, and came with twocanoes full of cocoa-nuts, oranges, a pitcher-full of palm-wine, and a cock, in orderJo fttew us that they had poultry. We bought the whole of what they brought us.heir chief was an old man 5 his face was painted and he wore pendants in his ears-
t\ . 1 684 a miffionary taught Cowley to make a milk of cocoa in this manner, which he found excellent.
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f 0 f. Clur author calls it matia it 's the fecond rind of the nutmeg, which has four: it is much in requeftaiomatic tafte. Macis officina. Linn,n offibly the piftach io tree ( Piftacia terebinthus. Linn.)
'T’w' ^terwards received the name of the Philippines, from Philip of Auflria, the fon of Charles V. b e p 1 - be Philippines are fituate between 225 and 235 degrees of the ifland of Ferro ^conlequently-bgrW 611 I 9 ? and 205 degrees of the line of demarcation, as is feen on the general chart. . Phis archipe-i' s n .°’ ; therefore in 161 degrees of longitude from this line. I am ignorant whether in determining.mer e ] >n ^ ltU< ^ e Magellan and his aftrologer San Martino really gave that they computed! .or whether theytba^tJ 't thus that they might comprife the Moluccas within the 180 degrees. I t is however certain
brofr e ore Dampier there was an error in the computations of the longitude of 25 degrees.. See JDe-ues -> tome ii. p. 72.
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