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party. Him they called " Mid-ger Plindah," 

 and his brother Mr. Samuel Flinders, they nam- 

 ed "Dam-wel." Three of their names were Yel- 

 yel-bah, Ye-woo, and Bo-ma-ri-go. The resem- 

 blance of this last to Porto Rico imprinted it 

 on Lieut. Flinders's recollection. When these 

 people joined the party, the strangers were shown 

 and their names severally told them, until they 

 had learnt the pronunciation. The ceremony 

 was reciprocal, and accorded with what Capt. 

 Cook had said before of an inhabitant of Endea- 

 vour river, " lie introduced the strangers by 

 name, a ceremony which upon siich occasions 

 was never omitted." 



On a comparative view of the size of these 

 people, they were evidently lower than the Eng- 

 lish, and perhaps less in every respect, except 

 in the disproportionate size of the head ; and 

 indeed this was not general. In the features of 

 the face, particularly in the elongation of the 

 lower ones, in the small calf to the leg, and the 

 curve of the thigh, they bore a general resemb- 

 lance to the natives of Port Jackson ; but there 

 was not one in all this group, whose countenance 

 had so little of the savage, or the symmetry of 

 whose limbs expressed strength and agility, sq 

 much as those of Bong-ree. 



A hawk presenting himself, Lieut. Flinders 

 thought it a fair opportunity of shewing his new 

 friends a specimen of the effect of his fire-arms. 

 He made them understand what he intended; 

 but, while shifting the buck-shot in the musquet 

 for a charge of small shot, their agitation was 



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