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disagreeable, their eyes were lively, and their teeth 

 even and white, their voices were soft and tunable, 

 and they repeated many words after us with great 

 facility. In the night, Mr. Gore and the master 

 returned with the long-boat, and brought one turtle 

 and a few shell-fish. The yawl had been left upon 

 the shoal with six men, to make a farther trial 

 for turtle. 



The next morning, we had another visit from four 

 of the natives ; three of them had been with us be- 

 fore, but the fourth was a stranger, whose name, as 

 we learnt from his companions who introduced him, 

 was Yaparico. This gentleman was distinguished 

 by an ornament of a very striking appearance : it 

 was the bone of a bird, nearly as thick as a man's 

 finger, and five or six inches long, which he had 

 thrust into a hole, made in the gristle that divides 

 the nostrils ; of this we had seen one instance, and 

 only one, in New Zealand ; but, upon examination, 

 we found that among all these people this part of 

 the nose was perforated, to receive an ornament of 

 the same kind : they had also holes in their ears, 

 though nothing was then hanging to them, and had 

 bracelets upon the upper part of their arms, made of 

 platted hair, so that, like the inhabitants of Terra 

 del Fuego, they seem to be fond of ornament, 

 though they are absolutely without apparel ; and 

 one of them, to whom I had given part of an old 

 shirt, instead of throwing it over any part of his 

 body, tied it as a fillet round his head. They brought 

 with them a fish, which they gave us, as we supposed, 

 in return for the fish that we had given them the 

 day before. They seemed to be much pleased, and 

 in no haste to leave us, but seeing some of our 

 gentlemen examine their canoe with great curiosity 

 and attention, they were alarmed, and jumping im- 

 mediately into it, paddled away without speaking 

 a word. 



About two the next morning, the yawl, which 



