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Vaio. _Fan-palm_, Boaceree. _The neck_, Lacoco. _Areca_, Calella. _The breasts_, Soosoo. _Betele_, Canana. _The nipples_, Caboo soosoo. _Lime_, Aou. _The belly_, Dulloo. _A fish-hook_, Maaenadoo. _The navel_, Assoo. _Tattow, the_} Tata. _The thighs_, Tooga. _marks on_ } _The knees_, Rootoo. _the skin_, } _The legs_, Baibo. _The sun_, Lodo. _The feet_, Dunceala. _The moon_, Wurroo. _The toes_, Kissovei yilla. _The sea_, Aidassee. _The arms_, Camacoo. _Water_, Ailea. _The hand_, Wulaba. _Fire_, Aee. _A buffalo_, Cabaou. _To die_, Maate. _A horse_, Djara. _To sleep_, Tabudge. _A hog_, Vavee. _To rise_, Tateetoo. One, Usse. Two, Lhua. Three, Tullu. Four, Uppah. Five, Lumme. Six, Unna. Seven, Pedu. Eight, Arru. Nine, Saou. Ten, Singooroo. Eleven Singurung usse. 20, Lhuangooroo. 100, Sing assu. 1000, Setuppah. 10,000, Selacussa. 100,000, Serata. 1,000,000, Sereboo. In this account of the island of Savu it must be remembered, that, except the facts in which we were parties, and the account of the objects which we had an opportunity to examine, the whole is founded merely upon the report of Mr Lange, upon whose authority alone therefore it most rest. SECTION XXXVII. _The Run from the Island of Savu to Batavia, and an Account of the Transactions there while the Ship was refitting_. In the morning of Friday the 21st of September, 1770, we got under sail, and stood away to the westward, along the north side of the island of Savu, and of the smaller that lies to the westward of it, which at noon bore from us S.S.E. distant two leagues. At four o'clock in the afternoon, we discovered a small low island, bearing S.S.W. distant three leagues, which has no place in any chart now extant, at least in none that I have been able to procure: It lies in latitude 10 deg. 47' S., longitude 238 deg. 28' W. At noon on
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