53 o ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [August, 



- The natives of the coaft, whenever fpeaking of thofe of the interior, 

 conftantly exprefled themfelves with contempt and marks of difap- 

 probation. Their language was unknown to each other ; and there 

 was not any doubt of their living in a ftate of mutual diftruft and 

 enmity. Thofe natives, indeed, who frequented the town of Sydney, 

 fpoke to and of thofe who were not fo fortunate, in a very fuperior 

 .tone, valuing themfelves upon their frienddiip with the white people, 

 and ereding in themfelves an exclufive right to the enjoyments of all 

 the benefits which were to refult from that friendmip. That they 

 fhould prefer the fhelter which they found in the houfes of the in- 

 habitants, to the miferable protedion from weather which their iil- 

 conftru&ed huts afforded, or even to that which they could meet with 

 under a rock, will be allowed to have been natural enough, when we 

 prefent the reader with a View of a man, his wife, and child, ac- 

 tually fketched on the fpot, by a perfon who met with them thus 

 endeavouring to obtain fhelter under the projection of a rock, during, 

 a heavy ftorm of rain and wind. 



