FOOTNOTES:
[45] In the chart prepared by M. Kolff, the longitude assigned for this bank is 136 deg. 48 min. east.—Translator.
[46] This opening was also entered two years subsequently by the Dutch corvette Triton and schooner Iris, when it was still supposed to be a river; but in 1835, Lieut. Kaal, of the Dutch navy, passed through it out to sea, proving the Dourga and St. Bartholomew Rivers to be the north-west and south-east entrances of a strait which cuts off the south-west extreme of New Guinea, and forms an island about one hundred miles long and sixty broad.—Translator.
[47] Captain Cook, during his first voyage, touched at a village on the south-west coast of New Guinea, whose position agrees with this, and had an encounter with the natives, in which lives were lost on the part of the latter. The people of the Endeavour observed, also, the singular proceeding above alluded to, and at first supposed that the natives had fire-arms. From the remarks of M. Modera, of the Dutch corvette Triton, it appears that the composition thrown out of the bamboos consists of lime, ashes and sand, which were ejected for the purpose of making signals to friends at a distance.—Translator.
[48] This disgraceful information of the Ceramese was influenced, probably, by their envy and jealousy of the others.