a large island of Asia in the East Indies, and one of the Philippines; 180 miles in length, and 120 in breadth. It is a very mountainous country, full of hills and valleys, and the mould is generally deep, black, and fruitful. The sides of the hills and valleys are stony, and yet there are tall trees of kinds not known in Europe: some of the mountains yield very good gold, and the valleys are watered with variety of rivulets. The palm-trees produce the sago, which the poor people eat, instead of bread, three or four months in the year. They have here all sorts of fruits proper to the climate, besides plenty of rice; some affirm that there are nutmegs and cloves, but none of the trees that bear them appear near the coast. They have horses, beves, buffaloes, goats, deer, monkeys, lizards, and snakes; but they have neither lions nor tygers. Their hogs are very ugly creatures, having all great knobs growing over their eyes; however, their flesh is sweet. Their fowls are ducks, hens, pigeons, parrots, paroquets, turtle-doves, and bats as large as kites, besides many small birds. The air is temperate, they having breezes by day, and cooling land-winds at night. The winds are easterly one part of the year, and westerly the other; while the former blow, it is fair weather; but while the latter, it is rainy, stormy, and tempestuous. The inhabitants are of a mean low stature, with small limbs and little heads. Their faces are oval, with flat foreheads, black small eyes, short low noses, and pretty large mouths. Their hair is black and straight, and their complexion tawny, but more inclining to yellow than that of other Indians. The women are very desirous of the company of strangers, especially white men. The chief trades are goldsmiths, blacksmiths, and carpenters; and they can build pretty good vessels for the sea.

Their disempers are as in other places, except the le-Mindelheim profy, which is very common here. The sultan has a queen, besides 20 other women, and all the men have several wives; for their religion is Mahometanism. Their houses are built on posts, from 14 to 20 feet high; and they have ladders to go up out of the streets. They have but one floor, which is divided into several rooms; and the roofs are covered with palmetto leaves. Those that have been far up in the country say, that the people are all blacks, and go quite naked. The principal town, of the same name, is pretty large, and is seated on the eastern coast.