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their Language is not unmusical, but different from any we have either before, or since met wth their arms are assagayes, headed wth. ye Boarded Bones of Rays they were however not uncivil, tho' very timorous & Jealous of their Sooty Wives.
After having repair'd our ship as well as we could, we, on ye 4th of August sallied first into a sea of Dangers, more difficult to imagine than to describe; without a wall of rocks, ran paralel to ye shore at ye distance of 8 or 10 Leagues within were Sheals [shoals] innumerable, which ye smoothness of ye water caus'd by the barrier that prevented our retreat, prevented us from discovering. In this Sea of Dangers we remaind, after having once escaped & having been driven back again into it with ye utmost hazard of our Lives 'till we carried in Late 10 S. where to our great Joy we discoverd an opening to ye west of us, which seem'd to promise a passage into ye Indian Sea; we accordingly followed it & found it indeed a Streight between New Guinea & New Holland through which we passed & became at once easy & happy.
We now resolved to see the Coast