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1770, under the auipices of Captain Cook. It was in this voyage 

 that Mr. Banks (afterwards Sir JofepbJ and dodlor Solander,\NzxQ. 



Tropic Bird, bis philofophical companions. A tropic bird was feen in Lat, 

 38° 29', an uncommon light, as it very rarely exceeds the limits 

 of the tropics. Proceeding northward, he paffed by a moimtaia 

 he called tlie Dromedary. On the twenty-feventh, he obferved 

 the wondering natives colleded on the rocks, in admiration of 



Botany Bay. the novel fight ; and on the 28th anchored in Botany Bay, of 

 later years well known, as the common retreat of the unfortu- 

 nate brave I 



Natives. The natives of thefe parts differed very little from thofe ob- 



ferved in the more fouthern latitudes. There can be no doubt 

 but our appearance was very hoftile ; they were difhdent of us to 

 the higheit degree, declined all intercourfe, and refufed all our 

 prefents : our navigators certainly did not ufe the arts of con- 

 ciliating their affe£lions. After frequently treating them with a 

 volley of fmall lliots on their legs, or more mufcular parts, we 

 are not to w^onder at their diflike to the ftrangers who had vifited 

 their coafts. Their wants, by reafon of the happinefs of the 

 climate, did not demand cloathing, and their minds were fu- 

 perior to the accepting of gew-gaws ; but they w ere frequently 

 prelTed by hunger. 



In Endeavour river, they boldly came on board the fhip, and 

 feeing plenty of turtle, wiflied to have a fhare ; they feized on 

 two, trufting to the rites of hofpitality, or the juftice of partaking 

 of the provifions found in their own feas (to which they had a 

 natural title) ; inftead of that they were roughly treated, and fo 

 highly irritated, as to take an inftant revenge, by fetting fire to 



the 



