CHAPTEE XIII 



SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF NEW HOLLAND NOW 

 CALLED NEW SOUTH WALES 1 



General appearance of the coast Dampier's narrative Barrenness of the 

 country Scarcity of water Vegetables and fruits Timber Palms 

 Gum trees Quadrupeds Birds Insects Ants and their habitations 

 Fish Turtle Shell-fish Scarcity of people Absence of cultivation 

 Description of natives Ornaments Absence of vermin Implements for 

 catching fish Food Cooking Habitations Furniture Vessels for 

 carrying water Bags Tools Absence of sharp instruments Native 

 method of procuring fire Weapons Throwiug-sticks Shield Cowardice 

 of the people Canoes Climate Language. 



HAVING now, I believe, fairly passed through between New 

 Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the 

 westward, so that to-morrow we intend to steer more to the 

 northwards in order to make the south coast of New Guinea, 

 it seems high time to take leave of New Holland, which I 

 shall do by summing up the few observations I have been 

 able to make on the country and people. I much wished, 

 indeed, to have had better opportunities of seeing and 

 observing the people, as they differ so much from the account 

 that Dampier (the only man I know of who has seen them 

 besides us) has given of them : he indeed saw them on 

 a part of the coast very distant from where we were, 

 and consequently the people might be different; but I 

 should rather conclude them to be the same, chiefly from 

 having observed an universal conformity in such of their 



1 This chapter is thus entitled by Banks. The name "New Wales" was 

 bestowed by Cook on the whole eastern coast from lat. 38 S. to Cape York : 

 the Admiralty copy of Cook's Journal, and that belonging to Her Majesty, 

 call it "New South Wales" (Wharton's Cook, p. 312). 



