DIEMEN. 
-a feine, which was fe dacgeid done with fuccefs. The ‘parts 
of the country-adjoining the bay - quite hilly ; and both 
thefe and the plain behind the beach, in which is a brackith 
_lake, are an entire foreft of very tall trees, rendered almoft 
impaffable by fhrubs, brakes of ferns, and fallen trees; ex- 
cept on the fides of hills, where the pee are ae ee 
and intermixed with coarfe grafs. The foi t 
land, to the northward of the bay, is either fandy, confifting 
of a white fand-ftone, which forms the Fluted cape, and 
aur the i or _ of a mould that: is yellowith, 
of a re The fame is found on the lower 
per of the hills, and oe up, it is of a — 
very poor. In the vallies there are fome {mall 
s; but the country appears to be naturally very dry. 
The heat alfo is great, as the. erence: flood at 64, 70, 
ie once at 74 degrees; and birds were obferved to putrefy 
an hour or two after they were killed. The country has 
rite) outceals nor, indeed, ttones; and among its vegetable pro- 
‘dutions none found that yielded a {malleft {ubfift- 
ence to ma 'The:foreft trees are all o 
to a great be ght, and gener 
reyifh caft, 
of a lar 
ever, the kanguroo is alfo an Godan of this oe of ie 
-country, as the natives ufed pieces of its fkin in their drefs. 
ere are feveral forts of birds, which, being much haraffed 
by the natives, who derive much of their fubfiftence from 
them, are — 
On the p 
few af ducks were feen about the pond or lake behind 
ag 
I 
inches long and fix round, ae! clouded with black and 
‘yellow. The fea was well ftocked with various seaas of 
filh; but the elephant fifth, or pejagallo, feemed to 
moft numerous. Upon the rocks the mufcles and ote 
fhell-fith were plentiful; fea-flars were numerous; {pon ngey 
Medufa’s heads, and fea-fuci were not uncommon. Of i 
fects there is a confiderable variety. The inhabitants had 
little of that fierce or wild appearance, common to people 
in their fituation; but feemed mild and cheerful, without 
referve, eo of ftrangers, They appear to have little 
ius, or perfonal aétivity, either of mind or body ; their 
th ill is manifeft i 
d_ bodi 
ae 
‘ 
e 
uite fo deep as alae of 
Their hair is perfe&ly To and it 
is clotted or divided into {mall parcels, like that the 
Hottentots, with fome fort of preafe, mixed with a red aint 
heir teeth 
are broad, not equal nor well fet ; thei ir pout are rather 
wide ; their beards are long, and clotted, like their hair, 
with paint. in other refpeéts they are well proportioned 
though the belly is rather proj heir habitations 
are wretched huts, formed of fticks, apparently ferving fora 
temporary pur t man t rgeft trees were 
<onverted into more comfortable dwellings. The trunks 
of thefe were hollowed out by fire, to the height of fix 
or feven feet, and in thefe hollows they took up their abode. 
The inhabitants of this part of the country are {prung, with- 
out doubt, from the fame ftock with thofe of the northern 
parts of New Ffolland ; and the difference may be accounted 
for by diftance of place, entire feparation, diverfity of climate, 
and other concurring circumiftances, here is not the 
leaft_ refemblance in their Anguages a circumftance which 
cannot be eafily accounte 
The natives approached - navigators who had ~~ 
without betraying any fym of fear, or rather. 
the greateft confidence ima ssinable. Labillardiere (abi 
infra) afcribes = gentlenefs with which they behaved 
to Capt. Cook and his co ange to the dread of Euro- 
ean fire-arms, excited b t. Marion’s aoe under the 
neceflity of ufing sali arms againit t 
quite naked, 
of the men; but though their hair was of the fame 
and texture, fome of them had their heads completely fhorn 
or fhaved: others had this operation performed only on one 
fide, while the reft had the upper part of the head fhorn 
clofe, leaving a circle of hair all round, fomewhat like the 
ecclefiaftics. ew 
they 
obeyed, though on the part of fome not ut relutance. 
(Cook’s Third Voyage, vol.i.) Of this and we have 
had 
ar near Pl 
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oremott of th 
pa) 
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og 
er 
ox 
pciatly, ee into the fea far beyond their prefent ab- 
rupt termination, and have been united with the 
