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drew it back again, and all with such humorous 

 gestures as elicited roars of laughter from both 

 parties. At length, however, on my speaking to 

 him, he threw it into the boat good-naturedly 

 enough. We now gave them some bottles and other 

 trifles, on which they offered us their armlets, made 

 of plaited grass, and seemed anxious to find some- 

 thing to give us in exchange. When the sun was 

 getting low, they pointed to it and then to the foot 

 of the hill, and laid their heads on their hands, to 

 shew us they were going to sleep there, on which 

 we laid our heads down in the boat, and then pointed 

 across the bay to tell them we were going to sleep 

 where we were, and were going away in the morn- 

 ing, on which they all rose up and departed together. 

 There were two old men, five middle-aged, and five 

 young men, an old woman, three younger ones, and 

 two children, and we saw another head or two peep- 

 ing over some rocks at a little distance. These 

 men were not so powerful as those we had seen at 

 Port Bowen, but were well made, active, with gene- 

 rally good expressions of countenance ; and, except- 

 ing one, who appeared to be an idiot, and had a 

 horrid misshapen head and face, they had no mark 

 of disease or infirmity. All the men had one front 

 tooth out, generally on the left side, but in one or 

 two instances on the right. Their bodies, especially 

 the shoulders and breast, were marked with the 

 usual raised scars or weales. They all said " Bar- 

 bon," when these were touched, that being, I con- 

 clude, their name for them. In some the scars were 



