liberal demeanour we reftored him part of his poniards and fufils, and gave him aftandard, a drefs of yellow damafk, and fifteen yards of linen. To his fon we made aprefent of a cloak of blue cloth, &c. His brother received a drefs of green cloth. vV e ,likewife, made prefents to the people who were with them, fo that we parted in afriendly manner,
We now fleered to pafs on a backward track between the ifland of Cagayan and theport of Chipit, our courfe being eaft by fouth, and our deftination for the iflands ofMalucho. We coafted certain iflets where we noticed the fea covered with herbs,notwithftanding it was here of very confiderable depth : we feemed to be in anotherfea*.
Leaving Chipit on the eaft, we difcerned on the weft the two iflands Zolo f andfaghima J, where, as is faid, the fineft pearls are ffthed. Here thofe were taken be-longing to the King of Borneo , of which I have fpoken ; the manner in which he ob-tained poffeflion of them was as follows : This King had married a daughter of theKing of Zolo, who one day told him that her father owned thefe two large pearls.The King of Burne, on hearing it, was anxious to have them, and one night he failedtvith five hundred veffels full of armed men, feized on the perfon of his father-in-lawa nd his two fons, and made the furrender of thefe two pearls the price of theirliberation.
Keeping now a courfe eaft by north we paffed by two villages called Cavit and Su-banin, and failed by an inhabited ifland called Motroripa, ten leagues from the ifletswhich I have mentioned. The inhabitants of this ifland build no houfes ; but con*ftantly live in their boats.
The villages of Cavit and Subanin ftand on the iflands Bulnan and Caligan, in whichthe beft cinnamon grows. Had we been able to remain there any time we might haveloaded our veffel with that fpice ; but we were unwilling to lofe the favourable wind■which then prevailed, for we had to double a point and pafs fome fmall iflands whichfurround it. Sailing along we faw fome iflanders who came off to us, and gave usSeventeen pounds of cinnamon for two large knives we had taken from the governor of■Pulaoan.
Having feen the cinnamon tree I am enabled to give a defcription of it.. It is front'five to fix feet high, and no thicker than one’s finger. Never has it more than three0r four branches : the leaf is fimilar to that of the laurel: the cinnamon we ufe isMerely the bark of the tree, which is ftripped off twice in the year. The wood itfelfe ven, and the green leaves have the fame aromatic flavor as the bark. It is called byfi e natives cainmana (whence the name cinnamon is derived) from cain, which figni-.es Wood, and mana, fweet.
Changing our courfe now for a north-eafterlv direfrion, we fleered for a town calledfamgdunao [j, fituate in the fame ifland with Butuan and Calangan, our object infaking which place was to obtain precife information refpefring the fite of the iflandsJ la 'ueho. Meeting a bignaday on our way, a bark refembling a pirogue, we determined° n capturing it; but as in efiefring this we encountered refiftance, we killed feven of
Am ^ te< ^ man > in nearly the fame latitude in the Atlantic Ocean , found the fea covered with herbage.Se T TTI -.. The French navigators met with the fame phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean in Riedle Bay.Vc 2etk)^ ■ x *"‘ the Voyage of Difcovery to the Auftral Regions by Peron, in this colledtion. The+ 1 -' s fi' e fit cus giganteus,. often from 250 to too feet long. Eng. Tr.
J w . 11 ca hs it Jolo Cook, Sooloo. J Now Bafilan.ftands 31n jj'h ,na ° i s the fame as Mindanao, a town on a lake of fimilar name with the ifland on which it
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