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holes cut in it to Fee through. They now advanced with great intrepidity, and bothdifcharged their lances at the boat’s crew, but did not wound any of them. Anothermufquet was now fired at them, on which they threw another lance, and then took totheir heels. The crew now went up to the huts, in one of which they found the chil-dren, who had fecreted themfelves behind fome bark. They looked at them, but leftthem without their knowing they had been feen ; and having thrown fome pieces ofcloth, ribbons, beads, and other things into the hut, they took feveral of their lances,and reimbarked in the boat.
They now failed to the north point of the bay, where they found a plenty of frefliwater. On taking a view of the hut where they had feen the children, they had themortification to find that every Indian was fled, and that they had left all the prefentsbehind them. Some men having been fent to get wood and water, they no foonercame on board to dinner, than the natives came down to the place, and examined thecalks with great attention, but did not offer to remove them. In the evening Melfrs.Banks and Solander went with the captain to a cove north of the bay, where theycatched between three and four hundred weight of filh in four hauls.
On Tuefday, May the ift, the fouth point of the bay was named Sutherland Point,one of the feamen, of the name of Sutherland, having died that day, and been buriedon fhore. This day MelTrs. Banks, Solander, the captain, and a few other gentlemen,■went on fhore, and left more prefents in the huts, fuch as looking-glalfes, combs, &c.but the former ones had not been taken away. They faw the dung of an animal whichfed on grafs, and traced the footfteps of another, which had claws like a dog, and wasprobably about the fize of a wolf: they difcovered the track of a fmall animal, whofefoot was like that of a pole-cat $ and faw one animal alive, about the fize of a
rabbit.
The fecond lieutenant, Mr. Gore, having been with a boat to dredge for oyfters,faw fome Indians, who made figns for him to come on Ihore, which he declined.Having finilhed his bufinefs, he fent the boat away, and went by land with a midfhip-man, to join the party that was getting water. In their way they met with more thantwenty of the natives, who followed them fo clofe, as to come within a few yards ofthem. Mr. Gore flopped and faced them ; on which the Indians flopped alfo, and"'hen he proceeded again they followed him; but they did not attack him, though theybad each man his lance. The Indians coming in fight of the waterers, flood flill atthe diftance of a quarter of a mile, while Mr. Gore and his companions reached theirShipmates in fafety.
Tupia having learnt to fhoot, frequently flrayed alone to fhoot parrots; and theIndians conflantly fled from him with as much precipitation as from the Englifh. Onthe 3d of May, fourteen or fifteen Indians, in the fame number of canoes, were en-gaged in ftriking fifh within half a mile from the watering-place.
They now returned to their boat, and feeing a fire at a diftance, rowed towards it,but the Indians fled at their approach. Near the beach they found feven canoes, andas many fires, from whence they judged that each fifherman had drafted his owndinner. There were oyfters lying on the fpot, and fome mufcles roafting on the fire.They ate of thefe fifh, and left them fome beads and other trifles in return. Theynow returned to the fhip.
They fifhed with great fuccefs this day, and the fecond lieutenant ftruck what isculled the fting-ray, which weighed near two hundred and fifty pounds. The nextCorning a fifh of the fame kind was catched, which weighed three hundred and fiftyPounds.
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