2 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



these inhabitants. They broil shell-fish on 

 the coals y in order to eat them. Polygamy 

 established among these people. Their man- 

 ner of fishing. The Women go in search cf 

 "^'^bstersy and other shell-fishy and somciimes 

 da >e foj^ them to a considerable depth. One 

 ^J ^ "he savages comes on board. -Their knoic- 

 ledge- ^ /;;. botany. 



xl-1 nve ^^cIock in the morning, on the 23d 

 01 Januar y^ j landed near the entrance of our 

 anchorage .^ I there faw along the iliore fome 

 biocKs (<-,f free-ftone, the fragments of which 

 .lad ici 'fjicfj j;he very fine fand refembling quartz 

 that 1 ^y^ij^ctj over for fome time. 



-; -he Efpcrance had already found, in a fmall 

 ^Ove to the north-weft, a watering-place, the 

 water of which was very good, and very eafy to 

 be procured. The rivulet that furnifhed it, 

 difcharged itfelf into the fea from the height 

 of upwards of a meter. It was by no means 

 difficult to convey it into the boat, by means 

 of wooden troughs. 



We foon arrived near the head of the bay, 

 where we found a houfe, built in a workman- 

 like manner by the favagcs. We admired the 

 fl<:iil with which tliey had difpofed the bark of 

 tr^^es that covered it : it was impervious to the 

 heavicft rain i its opening was placed towards 



the 



