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SAVAGE I

Volume 9 · 85 words · 1778 Edition

SAVAGE Island, one of the small islands in the south sea, lying in S. Lat. 19. 1. W. Long. 169. 37. It is about seven leagues in circuit, of a good height, and has deep water close to its shores. Its interior parts are supposed to be barren, as there was no soil to be seen upon the coasts; the rocks alone supplying the trees with humidity. The inhabitants are exceedingly warlike and fierce, so that captain Cook could not have any intercourse with them.