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" The little intercourfe that I had with the New Zealanders does 

 not enable me to fay much refpe&ing them, or to form any decifive 

 opinion of them ; as much of their friendly behaviour in this flight 

 interview might be owing to our connexion with Too-gee and Hoo- 

 doo, and their being with us. Thefe two worthy favages (if the 

 term may be allowed) will, I am confident, ever retain the mod 

 grateful remembrance of the kindnefs they received on Norfolk Ifland ; 

 and if the greater part of their countrymen have but a fmall 

 portion of the amiable difpofition of Too-gee and Hoo-doo, they 

 certainly are a people between whom and the Englifh colonifts a 

 good underftanding may with common prudence and precaution be 

 .cultivated. I regret very much that the fervice on which the Bri- 

 tannia was ordered did not permit me to detain her longer; as in a 

 few days, with the help of our two friends, much ufeful information 

 might have been obtained refpecting the quantity of manufactured 

 flax that might be procured ; which I think would be of high im- 

 portance, if better known. The great quantity that was procured, in 

 exchange for fmall pieces of iron hoop, is a proof, that an abundance 

 of this valuable article is manufactured among them," 



REMARKS ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE 

 NATIVES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



The reader of the preceding narrative will have feen, that after 

 many untoward occurrences, and a considerable lapfe of tirng, that 

 friendly intercourfe with the natives which had been fo earneftly dc- 

 fired was at length eftablifhed ; and having never been materially in- 

 terrupted, thefe remote iflanders have been fhewn living in confider- 

 able numbers among the inhabitants of Sydney, without fear or re- 

 ft rain t ; acquiring their language ; readily falling in with their man- 

 ners and cuftoms ; enjoying the comforts of their clothing, and re- 

 lifhing the variety of their food. They faw them die in their houfes, 

 and the places of the deceafed inilantly filled by others, who obferved 



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