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New Guinea

Near them was a small shed hardly half coverd with Cocoa nut leaves  in & about which were infinite Cocoa nut shells  some quite fresh  we stayd under these trees some time admiring & wishing for the fruit  but as none of us could climb it was impossible to get even one so we even left them & proceeded in search of any thing else which might occur   we soon found Plantains & a single Bread fruit tree but neither of these had any fruit on them  so we proceeded & had got about a quarter of a mile from the boat when on a sudden 3 Indians rushd out of the woods with a hideous shout  about 100 yards beyond us & running towards us  the formost threw something out of his hand which flew on one side of him & burnd exactly like gunpowder  the other two immediately threw two darts at us on which we fird  the most of our guns were loaded with small shot which at the distance they were from us I suppose they hardly felt  for they movd not at all but

 

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