CAPTAIN COOK. 



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quite naked, and their bodies were fancifully marked with white streaks. The Endeavour 

 cast anchor at a spot right opposite a group of eight tnia-mias, under the shade of 

 which was an old woman with three children, in all their dusky nudity, apparently 



engaged in cooking, for i 



they paid little or no 

 attention to the strange 

 sight of the white man's 

 ship, nor to the harsh 

 sound made by the pay- 

 ing out of her cable through the hawse-hole. 

 In the course of the afternoon Cook 

 prepared to make a landing, but as his 

 boats neared the shore two natives ran down 

 to the rocks with spears in their hands, and 



" in a very loud tone, and in a harsh dissonant language" which a New Zealander, whom 

 Cook had taken with him, was unable to understand they appeared to be forbidding the 

 visitors to advance. A present of some nails and beads seemed for a moment to produce 

 a good effect, but on the attempt to land being renewed, the natives again showed signs 

 of opposition. Cook endeavoured to make them understand that he wanted water, and 

 that no injury was designed, but his attempts at conciliation met with no success. A 



COOK LANDING AT BOTANY BAY. 



