OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



merit they had afforded, Mr. Flinders gave them fome worfted caps, 

 and a pair of blanket trowfers, with which they feemed well pleafed. 

 Several other natives now made their appearance ; and it was fome 

 time before they could overcome their dread of approaching the 

 ftrangeis with their fire-arms ; but, encouraged by the three who 

 were with them, they came up, and a general fong and dance was 

 commenced. Their finging was not confined to one air ; they gave 

 three. 



Of thofe who 1 aft came, three were remarkable for the largenefs of 

 their heads ; and one, whofe face was very rough, had much more 

 the appearance of a baboon than of a human being. He was covered 

 with oily foot ; his hair matted with, filth ; his vifage, even among his 

 fellows, uncommonly ferocious ; and. his very large mouth,, befet with: 

 teeth of every hue between black, white, green, and yellow,, fome- 

 times prefented a fmile which might make any one fhudder- 



When thefe people joined the party, the ftrangers were fhown^ 

 and their names feveraliy told to them, until they had gotten the pro- 

 nunciation. This ceremony was reciprocal, and accorded with what 

 Captain Cook had faid before of an inhabitant of Endeavour River.. 

 " He introduced the ftrangers by name, a ceremony which upon fuch> 

 occafions was never omitted." The difference of latitude betweem 

 thefe two places is 1 1° 39/, or feven hundred miles. 



With regard to the comparative fize of thefe people, they were evi- 

 dently fomewhat lower than the common ftandard of Engliftimen, and: 

 perhaps fmaller in every refpecr., except in the difproportionate fize 

 of the head ; and indeed this was not general. In the features of the 

 face, particularly in the elongation of the lower ones, in the fmall 

 calf to the leg, and the curve of the thigh, they bore a general refem- 

 blance to the natives of Port Jackfon. 



A hawk prcfenting himfeif, Mr. Flinders thought it a good oppor- 

 tunity of mewing his new friends a fpecimen of the effect and cer- 

 tainty of his fire-arms. He made them comprehend what was in- 

 tended, 



