I32 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



one with a portion, which was immediately ferved 

 out. 



We were not a little aftonifhed to fee among 

 different fifhes caught with hook and line during 

 the night, fome (harks about two meters long ; 

 they were of the fpecies defignated by the name 

 of fqualus cinereus* Th'13 fhark does not quit the 

 bottom of the fea ; we never faw it make its ap- 

 pearance on the furface of the water during the 

 whole time of our flay at Cape Diemen. It 

 does not appear to be dangerous to man : 

 our failors bathed often, and no trident hap- 

 pened to them. This fifh finds in fuch abundance 

 wherewithal to fatiate his voracity, that he does not 

 k men ; otherwife the natives of this coun- 

 try, who dive to great depths in fcarch of lob- 

 flcrs and other fhell-fifh, on which they fubfift, 

 Would be incefTantly expofed to be devoured by 

 thefe animals. 



Some mountains, the perpendicular height of 



1 feemed to be at leaf! a kilometer, were feen 



e of three myriamcters to the north. 



Their fummits were covered with large trees, whole 



verdure fiill added to the beauty of the grand 



profpeel: which rded us. 



An officer from our fhip having been in the 

 morning to found towar iiead of the har- 



bour, and having gone on fhore, had found a 



few 



