low and sandy, and all slightly crowned with a -few shrubby bushes; the reef that encompasses them ?eemed to be of great extent The next day we were steering along the shore, and passed a sandy projection which was named Cape Baskerville, after one of the midshipmen of the Bathurst. To the southward of Cape Baskerville the coast trends in, and forms Carnot Bay; it then takes a southerly direction. It is here that Tasman landed, according to the fol- lowing extract from Dalrymple's Papua--" Iu Hollandia Nova, in 17 �S. (Longitude 121 � or 12'2 � Tasman found a naked, black people, with curly hair, malicious and cruel; using for arms, bows and arrows, hazeygaeys and kala- waeys. They once came to the number of fifty, double armed, dividing themselves into two par- ties, intending to have surprised the Dutch, who had lauded twenty-five men; but the firing of guns frightened them so, that they fled. Their proas are made of the bark of trees; their coast is dangerous; there are few vegetables; the people use no houses." At noon our latitude was 17O 18' 99". At four o'clock we were abreast of Captain Baudin's Point Coulomb, which M. De Preycinet describes to be the projection at which the Eed Cliffs com- mence. The interior is here higher thaa to
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