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fkin refemble carving; it is confined to the principal men, the females and fervants ufingonly red paint, with which they daub their faces, that oiherwife would not be difagree-able. Their cloth is white, glolfy, and very even; it is worn principally by the men,though it is wrought by the women, who, indeed, are condemned to all the drudgeryand labour.
In converfation with the natives, it was found they eat their enemies after they arekilled in war. Captain Cook and Dr. Solander went on the 27th to infpect the bay,when the doctor was not a little furprifed to find the natives in poffeflion of a boy’stop, which they knew how to fpin by whipping it, and he purchafed it out of curiofity*At the watering-place, the Indians by defire fung their war-fong, which was a Arrangemedley of Ihouting, fighing, and grimace, at which the women affiflred. The next dayCaptain Cook and the other gentlemen went upon an ifland at the entrance of the bay,and met with a canoe that was fixty-feven feet in length, fix in breadth, and four inheight; her bottom, which was lharp, confided of three trunks of trees, and the fidesand head were curioufly carved. Their favourite figure is a volute, or fpiral, which isfometimes fingle, double, and triple, and is done with great exactnefs, though theonly inftruments the gentlemen faw were an axe made of firone, and a chiflel.
There are many beautiful parrots, and great numbers of birds of different kinds,particularly one whofe note refembled the European black-bird; but here is no ground-fowl or poultry, nor were there any quadrupeds, except rats and dogs, and thefe werenot numerous. The dogs are confidered as delicate food, and their Ikins ferve forornaments to their apparel.
Sunday, October 29th, they fet fail from this bay, which is called by the nativesTolaga. This is a very hilly country, though it prefents the eye with an agreeableverdure, various woods, and many fmall plantations. Mr. Banks met with a greatnumber of trees in the woods, quite unknown to Europeans. The fire-wood referable®the maple-tree, and produced a gum of whitilh colour. The only roots they met withwere yams and fweet potatoes.
Sailing to the northward, they fell in with a fmall illand, about a mile diftant fr ointhe north-eaft point of the main ; and this being the mod eaftern part of it, the cap'tain named it Eaft Cape, and the ifland Eaft Ifland: it was but fmall, and appear 6 ®barren. In the evening of the 30th, Lieutenant Hicks difcovered a bay, to which hisname was given. Next morning, about nine, feveral canoes came off from Ihore wita number of armed men, who appeared to have hoftile intentions. Before thefe ha^reached the fhip, another canoe, larger than any that had yet been feen, full of arm eIndians, came off, and made towards the Endeavour with great expedition. The c<fftain now judging it expedient to prevent, if poflible, their attacking him, orderegun to be fired over their heads ; this not producing the defired effect, another g uwas fired with ball, which threw them into fuch confternation, that they immediate yreturned much falter than they came. This precipitate retreat induced the captaingive the cape off which it happened the name of Cape Runaway. Next morning’day-break they faw between forty and fifty canoes along Ihore, many of which ca ^off in the manner they had done the day before, Ihouting, and menacing an atta ^ eOne of their chiefs in the largelt of the canoes made feveral harangues, and bymenacing flourilh of his pike, feemed to bid the fhip defiance; but the gentlemen co^tinuing to invite them to trade, they at laft came clofe alongfide, and the chief w^
. had been declaiming, after uttering a fentence, took up a ftone and threw it i*# 31 ,the fide of the fhip, which appeared to be a declaration of hoftilities, as they im aI ^j efeized their arms. One of them took fome linen that was hanging to dry, and m ^