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Early Australian Voyages

CHAPTER XXI: REMARKS UPON THE VOYAGE
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It was much worm-eaten, and had in it some live worms above an inch long, and about the bigness of a goose-quill, and having their heads crusted over with a thin shell.
After this we passed by an island, called by the Dutch St.John's Island, leaving it to the north of us.

It is about nine or ten leagues round, and very well adorned with lofty trees.

We saw many plantations on the sides of the hills, and abundance of cocoa-nut trees about them, as also thick groves on the bays by the seaside.

As we came near it three canoes came off to us, but would not come aboard.

They were such as we had seen about the other islands.


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