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diately accepted our invitation : they alfo com- 

 prehended other words of the vocabulary of the 

 language of the people whom we had {een ; and 

 we made no doubt but they fpoke the fame 

 tongue: however, Anderfon has colleded fome 

 words of the language of the inhabitants of 

 Adventure Bay, which have no affinity to thofe 

 we had it in our power to verify. 



Thefe favages exprelTcd a great deal of grati- 

 tude when we gave them fome fmall pieces of 

 cloth of different colours, glafs beads, a hatchet, 

 and a few other articles of hardware. 



Several other favages came out of the wood, 

 nnd approached us. There was not, among 

 them, a fingle wom.an, ajid only a few young 

 men. Of thefe we remarked one of a middling 

 Irature, whofe form, even in the opinion of our 

 draughtfman, was of the fincll" proportions. From 

 his cojlume we took this favage for a New^ Hol- 

 land pel it viaitre: he was tatooed with a great 

 deal of fymmctry ; and his hair, covered with 

 greafc, was thickly powdered with ochre. 



One of the natives gave us to undcrfland, 

 that he had before fcen fnips in Adventure Bay : 

 he probably meant to fpeak of Captain Bligh, 

 who had come and anchored here in the begin- 

 jii ng of 1792, as \\q. learnt a few days after, 

 ir, fcveral infcri]-)tions which we found engraved 

 upon the trunks of trees. 



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