160 OLD GARIA SHAVED. 



Endeavour Strait, but larger and more orna- 

 mented. 



They asked for " tooree " (iron), but on our say- 

 ing we had none ashore, and pointing to the ship, 

 they went off to her in their canoe ; one man remain- 

 ing with us by himself, and going off in the whale- 

 boat, shewing their perfect confidence in our good 

 intentions. On board they made themselves quite 

 at home. Old Garia requested to have his grey 

 whiskers shaved off. They sat with us at dinner in 

 the gun-room, eating biscuit, but would not touch 

 pork, as they evidently seemed puzzled to make out 

 what it could possibly be. Having no large land 

 animals of their own, we were not quite sure they 

 did not suspect it to be man's flesh. They informed 

 us the name of the small island near which we were 

 was Oomaga, and gave us the names of the other 

 islands in sight, which agreed in the main with those 

 assigned to them by Mr. Lewis in the journal of his 

 search for the survivors of the Charles Eaton. — 

 (See Nautical Magazine for 1835). 



March 21. — We anchored near Dairy mple Island, 

 which the natives call Damood.* A canoe, with four- 

 teen men in it, pushed off from the island ; but asCapt. 

 Blackwood, with Mr. Melville and myself, were going 

 ashore in the first gig, we met them, and they went 

 back with us. On exchanging shouts of " poud ! 

 poud !" and waving green boughs, we immediately 



* The names of Tood and Damood, as given in Captain King's 

 chart of Mr. Lewis's track, ought to be transposed. 



