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N. E. four leagues and an half from Point Rodney. 

 Point Rodney lies W. N. W. nine leagues from Cape 

 Colville, in latitude 86'' 15' S. longitude 184° 53' W. 



The natives residing about this riv'er do not appear 

 to be numerous, considering the great extent of the 

 country. But they are strong, well-made, and active ; 

 people, and all of them paint their bodies with red I 

 oker and oil from head to foot, which we had not 

 seen before. Their canoes were large and well built, 

 and adorned with carving, in as good a taste as any 

 that we had seen upon the coast. 



We continued to stand along the shore till night, 

 with the main land on one side, and islands on the 

 other, and then anchored in a bay, with fourteen 

 fathom, and a sandy bottom. We had no sooner 

 come to an anchor, than we tried our lines, and in a 

 short time caught near one hundred fish, which the 

 people called Sea-bream ; they weighed from six to 

 eight pounds a-piece, and consequently would supply 

 the whole ship's company with food for two days. 

 From the success of our lines here, we called the 

 place Bream Bay : the two points that form it lie 

 north and south, five leagues from each other ; it is 

 every where of a good breadth, and between three 

 and four leagues deep : at the bottom of it there 

 appears to be a river of fresh water. The north head 

 of the bay, called Bream Head, is high land, and 

 remarkable for several pointed rocks, which stand in 

 a range upon the top of it : it may also be known 

 by some small islands which lie before it, called the 

 Hen and Chickens, one of which is high, and ter- 

 minates in two peaks. It lies in latitude 35° 46' S., 

 and at the distance of seventeen leagues and an half 

 from Cape Colville, in the direction of N. 41 W. 



The land between Point Rodney and Bream Head, 

 an extent of ten leagues, is low, and wooded in tufts, 

 with white sand banks between the sea and the firm 

 lands. We saw no inhabitants, but many fires in 



