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An.1687
N. E. end of Luconia, and Isle of St. John.
Town. A Boy with 4 Rows of Teeth. Para- kites. Crockadores, a fort of White Parrots. They pass among other Inhabited Islands, Om- ba, Pentare, Timor, &c. Sholes. New- Holland : laid down too much Northward. Its Soil, and Dragon trees. The poor Winking Inhabitants : their Features, Habit, Food, Arms, &c. The way of fetching Fire out of Wood. The Inhabitants on the Islands. Their Habitations, Unfitness for Labour, &c. The great Tides here. They design for the Island Cocos, and Cape Comorin.
THE third day of October 1687. we sailed from these Islands, standing to the Southward; intending to sail through among the Spice Islands. We had fair weather, and the wind at West. We first steered S.S.W. and passed close by certain small Islands that lye just by the North end of the Island Luconia. We left them all on the West of us, and past on the East side of it, and the rest of the Phi- lippine Islands, coasting to the Southward.
The N. East end of the Island Luconia appears to be good Champion Land, of an indifferent heighth, plain and even for many leagues: only it has some pretty high Hills standing upright by themselves in these Plains; but no ridges of Hills, or chains of Mountains joyning one to another. The Land on this side seems to be most Savannah, or Pasture: The S. E. part is more Mountainous and Woody.
Leaving the Island Luconia, and with it our Gol- den projects, we sailed on the Southward, passing on the East side of the rest of the Philippine Islands. These appear to be more Mountainous, and les Woody, till we came in sight of the Island St. John; the first of that name I mentioned: the other spake