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c K A P. Qjjy Qf them, one fellbw found an opportunity to get a 

 V- — -1— J cutlafs under his frock, and was not difcovered till he was 

 Algaii. going down the fide of the (hip : I immediately took it 

 Tuefdaysi. £^^^^-^ him, and gave him a very fevere chaftifement with 

 the flat fl^e of it, and afterwards drove him out of the 

 fhip y yet notwithftanding all our vigilance and attention, 

 another of them found means to fleal out of a box in my 

 cabin four pair of worfted ftockings and fome other things, 

 with which he found means to get out of the fliip undif- 

 covered. Our viflters from the Eaft were much ealier to 

 deal with, and much honefler. It appears to m^e that the 

 inhabitants of this Sound, and thofe farther to the Eaft- 

 ward, ftand much in awe of them ; for they frequently 

 importuned me very earneftly to drive them away; being ex- 

 tremely uneafy all the time they were on board. The Weftern 

 people appear to me to be much more warlike and favage 

 than any of their neighbours ; their language varies a little 

 from the others; but their fongs and muflc are entirely dif- 

 ferent ; their boats, weapons for war, and hunting im- 

 plements, are much the fame. They appear to be very in- 

 dolent and dirty, which naturally expofes them to all 

 manner of vermin, and which is difpofed of in the man- 

 ner already mentioned. They have not the ufe of bladder- 

 ikin frocks for their drefs, but make drefles of the fkins of 

 land and fea animals, made up in the fame . manner as 

 the inhabitants of Cook's River and Prince William's 

 Sound. The men do not ufe the method of flitting their 

 under-lips ; but wear their ornaments of beads, fhells, &c. 

 at their ears, through which they have fmall holes bored : 

 they likewife bore a foiall hole through the griftle of the 

 nofe, through which they will fometimes put a needle or 

 nail that they purchafe in trade, or may have given them 

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