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a Reef of rocks and several small Islands and the circuit of the whole appear'd to be about 8 Leagues: on the SW side of the Islands / as I am inform'd / is an opening in the reef which admits of a Channoll into a very good harbour This Island is very remarkable on account of a high craggy hill upon it, which terminates at top in two peeks the one higher than the other, this Hill is so perpendicular that it appears to be quite inaccessible. The land on Ulietea and Otaha is of a very hilly, broken and uneven surface ^ except what borders upon the Sea Coast - and high withall, yet the Hills look green and pleasent and are in many places Cloath'd with woods —
The produce of these Islands ^ and manners and customs of the natives are much the same as ^ at King Georges Island, only as the Bread fruit Tree is here in not such plenty the Natives to supply that deficience, plant and cultivate a greater quantity of Plantains and Yam ^ ms of several sorts and these they have in the greatest perfection.
Their manners and customs appear to be nearly the same they ^ The inhabitants are rather of a fairer complexion Colour than the generallity of the natives of Georges Island, but more particularly especialy the Women who are much fairer and handsomer and the men are not so much addicked to theiving and are more open and free in their beheavour —
The only difference we could see in their Religion was in the Houses of thier Gods which were very different to those we saw on Georges Island. those here were made about the size and
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© Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 103, 2004
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