Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . 643, to the second voyage of Cook, in 1773,—a space of onehundred and thirty years. Cook found traditions still existingrespecting Tasmans ships; and a nail was shown him which hadbeen left by the Dutch navigator. Proceeding to the north andthen to the west, Tasman discovered a group of twenty islands,girt with shoals and sands. He named them Prince WilliamsIslands and Heemskirks Shallows. These now form the easternportion of the Feejee archipelago. They remained
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . 643, to the second voyage of Cook, in 1773,—a space of onehundred and thirty years. Cook found traditions still existingrespecting Tasmans ships; and a nail was shown him which hadbeen left by the Dutch navigator. Proceeding to the north andthen to the west, Tasman discovered a group of twenty islands,girt with shoals and sands. He named them Prince WilliamsIslands and Heemskirks Shallows. These now form the easternportion of the Feejee archipelago. They remained unvisited fora century and a half, until the people of the Friendly Islandsspoke of them to Cook and his successors and induced them tovisit them. Tasman now feared that the currents and winds had drivenhim more to the westward than he had supposed; for he had MAN UPON THE SEA. 331 not seen the sun for many weeks, and was consequently withoutreliable observations. He resolved to make for the north, andthen for the western coast of New Guinea, in order not to bedriven to the south of the island and pass it without seeing NATIVES OF MURDERERS BAY. On the 1st of April, he saw the coast of what he supposed wasNew Guinea, but which was in reality New Britain. Here anearthquake terrified the seamen, for the shock caused them tofear they had struck upon a rock; but the lead did not reachthe bottom. On the 20th, they passed a burning island, noticedby late navigators, and perceived flames issuing from lofty moun-tains. The water was full of shrubs, bamboos, and small trees,carried by the rivers to the sea. The discharge of fresh waterby these rivers was such that it almost corrected the salt of theocean. The natives showed Tasman some ginger, and sold himhogs and cocoanuts. At the island of Moa he found the inha-bitants speaking a language so copious, that they could at oncerepeat, intelligibly, the words of any other language. Tasmandid not find it so easy to speak theirs, how
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