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They saw here a worm, or serpent, as thick as a man's leg and of great length. On the 5th they anchored off the coast of Gilolo.
Suspicious of the Dutch, they would not tell the name of their country. It was afterwards found that they were natives of Tidore. Captain Schouten now shaped a course, intending to go round the north point of Gilolo, and, having touched at Soppy, anchored on the 5th off the coast of that island. At this place some of the seamen went on shore several times to catch fish.
Desire of Dutch merchants to find a fresh passage into the South Sea Le Maire applies to Captain Schouten The Unity and Horn fitted out Sail Touch at Dover and Plymouth Put into Sierra Leone Fruit and water obtained The Horn struck by a sea-unicorn Make the coast of South America Attempting to enter Port Desire, the Unity strikes a rock Both vessels nearly lost The vessels put on shore to clean The Horn burnt Penguins Sea-lions Discovery of the Straits of Le Maire Cape Horn named and doubled Steer for Juan Fernandez Unable to find anchorage off it Touch at Dog, Water, and Fly Islands Fire at a double canoe Some of the natives killed The Unity anchors off an island Natives swarm around her Boat attacked Natives become friendly Their chief visits the ship The savages attack the ship Course changed to the northward Two savages killed Friendly intercourse with others The King and his courtiers take to flight at the sound of a great gun Meeting of two Kings A feast Other islands visited Coast of New Guinea reached Natives attack the ship Shock of an earthquake felt on board Sail along western coast of New Guinea Hostility of the natives Barter with the natives at the south end Touch at Gilolo and Amboyna The Unity confiscated at Batavia Death of La Maire Captain Schouten reaches Holland.
In the evening we stayed at a settlement of Galela men. These are natives of a district in the extreme north of Gilolo, and are great wanderers over this part of the Archipelago. They build large and roomy praus with outriggers, and settle on any coast or island they take a fancy for.
The 7th they saw the north point of Morty, or Moraty, N.E. of Gilolo. Contending with variable winds and adverse currents it was the 19th before they could get into the bay of Soppy in Gilolo, where they anchored in ten fathoms on sandy ground, about a cannon-shot from shore.
Thence sailing southward, the Hind passed several islands till she reached that of Mindanao, whence two canoes came off; but the wind blowing strong, Drake could not wait to communicate with them. On the 3rd of November she came in sight of the high-peaked Molucca Islands, to the east of which lies the great island of Gilolo. The two principal are called Ternate and Tidore.
GUEBE, lying between Waigiou and Gilolo, is engraved as if fringed; and it is said by Freycinet, that all the soundings under five fathoms were on coral; coloured red. CELEBES. The western and northern coasts appear in the charts to be bold and without reefs. The account of the following islands is taken from Captain D. Kolff's "Voyage," in 1825, translated by Mr. W. Earl, from the Dutch.
THE Moluccas consist of three large islands, Gilolo, Ceram, and Bouru, the two former being each about two hundred miles long; and a great number of smaller isles and islets, the most important of which are Batchian, Morty, Obi, Ke, Timor-Laut, and Amboyna; and among the smaller ones, Ternate, Tidore, Kaióa, and Banda.
The true indigenes of Gilolo, "Alfuros" as they are here called, live on the eastern coast, or in the interior of the northern peninsula. The distance across the isthmus at this place is only two miles, and there, is a good path, along which rice and sago are brought from the eastern villages.
The first are an intrusive Malay race somewhat allied to the Macassar people, who settled in the country at a very early epoch, drove out the indigenes, who were no doubt the same as those of the adjacent mainland of Gilolo, and established a monarchy.
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