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they prove a variety in the inhabitants. He fays they were a 

 large-made people, of a color between brown and yellow ; their 

 hair long, and almoft as thick as that of the Japanefey and that 

 like them they combed it up, and fixed it at the top of their 

 heads with a pin. They covered their middle with a mantle^. 

 fome with a kind of mat, others with a fort of woollen cloth; 

 their ingenuity might reach the fabricating a mat, but I doubt 

 the poffibility of the latter. 



In 1773, Tafman, after along interval, was followed by captain Captaw 

 Furneaux, who had been feparated from captain Cook, and di- is^jj^^^^ 

 lefted his courfe for the purpofe of purfuing the difcovery of 

 the Dutc^ navigator; he fell on the very fame country, and 

 found the fame bays and headlands obferved by 'Tafman. He 

 faw the land eight or nine leagues diftant ; it was rather high, 

 broken, and with bold lliores, but beaten by a moft violent furf : 

 it probably having the whole weight of the Antarftic ocean 

 from the very pole rolling on this great headland. 



The foil here was black, rich, but thin*, the fides of the son; 

 hills covered with trees, and the view greatly beautified by the 

 vafl: cataradls, tumbling from immenfe heights, and a rock with 

 fluted pillars, pofiibly bafaltic. Captain Furneaux faw none of 

 the natives, but met with their miferable wigwams, and fome 

 bags and nets in which they carried their provifions, and alfo a 

 ilone to ftrike fire with, and fome tinder. 



In January ij-jj, this country was vifitcd in perfon by our Captaiw 

 great navigator, who had the good fortune to meet with fome of 1777.' 

 the natives, who came to him with the utmoft confidence, and 



• Cook's laft voyage, i. Ii2. 



"without 



