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Early Australian Voyages

CHAPTER XXI: REMARKS UPON THE VOYAGE
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When we came within four or five leagues of this island to the west of us, four boats came off to view us, one came within call, but returned with the other three without speaking to us; so we kept on for the island, which I named Sir R.Rich's Island.

It was pretty high, woody, and mixed with savannahs like those formerly mentioned.

Being to the north of it, we saw an opening between it and another island two leagues to the west of it, which before appeared all in one.

The main seemed to be high land, trending to the westward.
On Tuesday, the 2nd of April, about eight in the morning, we discovered a high-peaked island to the westward, which seemed to smoke at its top: the next day we passed by the north side of the Burning Island, and saw smoke again at its top, but the vent lying on the south side of the peak, we could not observe it distinctly, nor see the fire.

We afterwards opened three more islands, and some land to the southward, which we could not well tell whether it were islands or part of the main.


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