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grand or complicated object, such as our ship. 

 Bougainville has well remarked concerning these 

 people, that they treat the " chef-d'oeuvres de I'in- 

 dustrie humaine, corame ils traitent les loix de la 

 nature at ses phenomenes." 



On the 5th of March we anchored in the cove 

 at Woollya, but we saw not a soul there. We 

 were alarmed at this, for the natives in Ponsonby 

 Sound showed by gestures that there had been 

 fighting ; and we afterwards heard that the dreaded 

 Oens men had made a descent. Soon a canoe, 

 with a little flag flying, was seen approaching, 

 with one of the men in it washing the paint off" his 

 face. This man was poor Jemmy, now a thin, 

 haggard savage, with long, disordered hair, and 

 naked, except a bit of a blanket round his waist. 

 We did not I'ecognise him till he was close to us ; 

 for he was ashamed of himself, and turned his back 

 to the ship. We had left him plump, fat, clean, 

 and well dressed ; I never saw so complete and 

 grievous a change. As soon, however, as he was 

 clothed, and the first flurry was over, things wore 

 a good appearance. He dined with Captain Fitz 

 Roy, and ate his dinner as tidily as formerly. He 

 told us he had " too much" (meaning enough) to 

 eat, that he was not cold, that his relations were 

 very good people, and that he did not wish to go 

 back to England : in the evening we found out the 

 cause of this great change in Jemmy's feelings, in 

 the arrival of his young and nice-looking wife. 

 With his usual good feeling, he brought two beau- 

 tiful otter-skins for two of his best friends, and some 

 spear-heads and an-ows made with his own hands 

 for the Captain. He said he had built a canoe for 

 himself, and he boasted that he could talk a little 

 of his own language ! But it is a most singular 

 fact, that he appears to have taught all his tribe 



