It is here that Tasman landed, according to the following extract from Dalrymple's Papua: "In Hollandia Nova, in 17 degrees 12 minutes South (Longitude 121 degrees, or 122 degrees East) Tasman found a naked, black people, with curly hair, malicious and cruel; using for arms, bows and arrows, hazeygaeys and kalawaeys.

They once came to the number of fifty, double armed, dividing themselves into two parties, intending to have surprised the Dutch, who had landed 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 17 degrees 13 minutes 29 seconds.

At four o'clock we were abreast of Captain Baudin's Point Coulomb, which M.De Freycinet describes to be the projection at which the Red Cliffs commence.

The interior is here higher than to the northward, and gradually rises, at the distance of eight miles from the shore, to wooded hills, and bears a more pleasing and verdant appearance than we have seen for some time past; but the coast still retains the same sandy and uninviting character.