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gentlemen who introduced Mr. Banks and the Doc- 

 tor into the town were almost covered with streaks 

 of black in all directions, so as to make a very striking 

 appearance. Both men and women wore bracelets 

 of such beads as they could make themselves of 

 small shells or bones ; the women both upon their 

 wrists and ancles, the men upon their wrists only : 

 but to compensate for the want of bracelets on their 

 legs, they wore a kind of fillet of brown worsted round 

 their heads. They seemed to set a particular value 

 upon any thing that was red, and preferred beads even 

 to a knife or a hatchet. 



Their language in general is guttural, and they 

 express some of their words by a sound exactly like 

 that which we make to clear the throat when any 

 thing happens to obstruct it ; yet they have words 

 that would be deemed soft in the better languages of 

 Europe. Mr. Banks learnt what he supposes to be 

 their name for beads and water. When they wanted 

 beads, instead of ribbons or other trifles, they said 

 Jialltcd ; and when they were taken on shore from 

 the ship, and by signs asked where water might be 

 found, they made the sign of drinking, and pointing 

 as well to the casks as the watering-place, cried 

 Oodd, 



We saw no appearance of their having any food 

 but shell-fish ; for though seals were frequently seen 

 near the shore, they seemed to have no implements for 

 taking them. The shell-fish is collected by the women, 

 whose business it seems to be to attend at low water, 

 with a basket in one hand, and a stick, pointed and 

 barbed, in the other, and a satchel at their backs : 

 they loosen the limpets, and other fish that adhere 

 to the rocks with the stick, and put them into 

 the basket, which, when full, they empty into the 

 satchel. 



The only things that we found among them in 

 which there was the least appearance of neatness or 

 ingenuity were their weapons, which consisted of 



