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ever, could induce them to come on board. But 

 they entered, with great familiarity, into con- 

 versation (little understood) w T ith such of the officers 

 and seamen as went to them, paying much greater 

 regard to some than to others, and these we had 

 reason to believe they took for women. To one man, 

 in particular, the young woman showed an extra- 

 ordinary fondness until she discovered his sex, after 

 which she would not suffer him to come near her. 

 Whether it was that she before took him for one of 

 her own sex ; or that the man, in order to discover 

 himself, had taken some liberties with her which she 

 thus resented, I know not. 



In the afternoon, I took Mr. Hodges to a large 

 cascade, which falls from a high mountain on the 

 south-side of the bay, about a league above the place 

 where we lay. He took a drawing of it on paper, 

 and afterwards painted it in oil-colours ; which ex- 

 hibits, at once, a better description of it than any I 

 can give. Huge heaps of stones lay at the foot of this 

 cascade, which had been broken off and brought by 

 the stream from the adjacent mountains. These 

 stones were of different sorts ; none, however, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Forster's opinion (who I believe to 

 be a judge), contains either minerals or metals. 

 Nevertheless I brought away specimens of every 

 sort, as the whole country, that is, the rocky part of 

 it, seemed to consist of those stones and no other. 

 This cascade is at the east point of a cove, lying in 

 S. W. two miles, which I named Cascade Cove. In 

 it is good anchorage and other necessaries. At the 

 entrance, lies an island, on each side of which is a 

 passage ; that on the east side is much the widest. 

 A little above the isle, and near the S. E. shore, are 

 two rocks, which are covered at high water. It was 

 in this cove we first saw the natives. 



When I returned aboard in the evening I found 

 our friends the natives had taken up their quarters 

 about 100 yards from our watering-place - 7 a very 



