. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. l- leys were more than half the height of a man. Tlie rivers Avere bordered with reeds; and the banks with rose bushes, which forced their way up among the oyster shells with which the ground is covered; for the sea in this place abounds with oysters, many of which are three-eighths of an ell, and some half an ell, long [ander half vierendeel en een half ellen lang]^ and half a quarter of an ell in breadth. They saw no wild beasts except one large black bear; neither did they see cattle of
. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts. l- leys were more than half the height of a man. Tlie rivers Avere bordered with reeds; and the banks with rose bushes, which forced their way up among the oyster shells with which the ground is covered; for the sea in this place abounds with oysters, many of which are three-eighths of an ell, and some half an ell, long [ander half vierendeel en een half ellen lang]^ and half a quarter of an ell in breadth. They saw no wild beasts except one large black bear; neither did they see cattle of any kind, or ducks or fowls ; but many eagles and falcons. The name Acqueis is not on Jansens chart, or on the chart ofthe discoveries of this voyage published by ; but applyingthe latitude given in the account to their delineation of the * TIlis lias been inadvertentlj translated an ell and a iialllong. These fish wereprobably of the species called Razor shelljUh (.So/f«j, which are found on the Britishand on other coasts of theJSorth of Europe. The Amsterdam ell is about 26^ inches. 4 coast. nm A N D B R E S K E N S. 159 coast of Eso, Acquets will be to the WSW of the Cape marked chap. the chart, Cape Aniwa. Mr. Witsen speaking of this Cape ^^^q7^makes the following remaik. It is probable the Strait de Fries -August. * is the same which of old was named of Anion; and there was of the found near it a Cape called b}^ the natives of the country Kastrikom. Aniwa or Ania, which word differs but little from Anian. On the i6th of August, the Kastrikom anchored on the SEcoast of Yesso, in a Bay which they named the Bay de Goede j q ,iHope, where they took fresh water and wood. Hope. All of the description which next follows and is marked asquotation, is taken from the Korte heschryvinghe van Eso. According to the declaration of a certain Japander named Description * Oery (taken down in writing by those of tlie Kastrikom on the ^f Yesso. 27th of August 1643, which said Oe
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