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 COSST O1 USaAL. 135 that period it has certainly advanced a few paces in civilization;. but in other respects, as to its natural and artificial productions, it is perfectly conformable to that account. Coepan� also known by its hospitable re. ception o[ Lieutenant (the late Admiral) Bligh, after the mutiny of the Bounty's crew; and in 180 it was visited by Captain Flinders and Cornmo. dore Baudin: each of these navigators have spoken warmly of the hospitality they experi, enced, and I should be doing an injustice to Mr. I4azaart if I omitted a due acknowledgment ofhil kind attentio n to our Wants, and of the prompt assistance he afforded us in our operations. The presenc of a fleet of Malay proas in the roads has been before mentioned; it had just returned from an unsuccessful voyage on the south coast of Timer in search of trepang. Dramah. the principal rajah of this fleet, gave me the fol- lowing information respecting the coast.of New Holland, which he had frequently visited in the command of a fleet that annually frequents its shores, The coast is called by them "Marcga,'* and has been known to them for many years. A fleet, to the numberof200* proas, annually leaves Macassar
 * This number is perh,p8 very much exaggerated.