s Guards,
Habit, and Children. Their Commerce. Their different esteem
(as they pretend) of the English and Dutch. Maritime Indians
sell others for Slaves. Their Reception in the Town. A
Boy with 4 rows of Teeth. Parakites. Crockadores, a sort
of White Parrots. They pass among other inhabited Islands,
Omba, Pentare, Timore, &c. Sholes. New Holland: laid down
too much Northward. Its Soil, and Dragon-trees. The poor
winking inhabitants: their Feathers, Habit, Food, Arms,
&c. The way of fetching Fire out of Wood. The Inhabitants
on the Islands. Their Habitations, Unfitness for Labour,
&c. The great Tides here. They design for the Island Cocos,
and Cape Comorin.

The third Day of October 1687, we sailed from these Islands, standing
to the Southward; intending to sail through among the Spice Islands. We
had fair Weather, and the Wind at West. We first steer'd S.S.W. and
passed close by certain small Islands that lye just by the North-end
of the Island Luconia. [28] We left them all on the West of us, and
past on the East-side of it, and the rest of the Philippine Islands,
coasting to the Southward.

The N. East-end of the Island Luconia appears to be good Champion
Land, of an indifferent heighth, plain and even for many Leagues;
only it has some pretty high Hills standing upright by themselves in
these Plains; but no ridges of Hills, or chains of Mountains joyning
one to another. The Land on this side seems to be most Savannah,
or Pasture: The S.E. part is more Mountainous and Woody.

Leaving the Island Luconia, and with it our Golden Projects, we
sailed on to the Southward, passing on the East-side of the rest
of the Philippine Islands. These appear to be more Mountainous,
and less Woody, till we came in sight of the Island St. John; the
first of that name I mentioned: the other I spake of on the Coast of
China. This I have already described to be a very woody Island. Here
the Wind coming Southerly, forced us to keep farther from the Islands.

The 14 day of October we came close by a small low woody Island,
that lieth East from the S.E. end of Mindanao, distant from it about
20 Leagues. I do not find it set down in any Sea-Chart.

The 15th day we had the Wind at N.E. and we steered West for the Island
Mindanao, and arrived at the S.E. end again in the 16th day. There
we went in and anchored between two small Islands, which lie in
about 5 d. 10 m. North Lat. I mentioned