WOOLLYA HOPES. 



Feb. 



also was quite jfine, without a drop of rain, while at the ship, 

 in Packsaddle Bay, it rained frequently. I mention these 

 instances to show how different the climate may be even in 

 places so near one another as Packsaddle Bay and Woollya. 



14th. With considerable anxiety T crossed over from Button 

 Island to Woollya. Several canoes were out fishing, women 

 only beiiig in them, who did not cease their occupation as we 

 passed : this augured well ; and in a few minutes after we saw 

 Jemmy, York, and Fuegia, in their usual dress. But few 

 natives were about them, and those few seemed quiet and well 

 disposed. Jemmy complained that the people had stolen many 

 of his things, but York and Fuegia had contrived to take 

 better care of theirs. I went to their wigwams and found very 

 little change. Fuegia looked clean and tidily dressed, and by 

 her wigwam was a canoe, which York was building out of 

 planks left for him by our party. The garden was uninjured, 

 and some of the vegetables already sprouting. 



Jemmy told us that strangers had been there, with whom 

 he and his people had ' very much jaw,' that they fought, 

 threw 'great many stone,** and stole two women (in exchange 

 for whom Jemmy's party stole one), but were obliged to retreat. 

 Jemmy's mother came down to the boat to see us; she was 

 decently clothed, by her son's care. He said that his brothers 

 were all friendly, and that he should get on very well now that 

 the ' strange men' were driven away. I advised Jemmy to take 

 his mother and younger brother to his own wigwam, which 

 he promised to do, and then, finding that they were all quite 

 contented and apparently very happy, I left the place, with 

 rather sanguine hopes of their effecting among their country- 

 men some change for the better. Jemmy's occupation was 

 hollowing out the trunk of a large tree, in order to make such 

 a canoe as he had seen at Rio de Janeiro. 



I hoped that through their means our motives in taking them 

 to England would become understood and appreciated among 

 their associates, and that a future visit might find them so 

 favourably disposed towards us, that Matthews might then 



