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was offered them, and examined the boat with a 
curiolity which impreffed a higher idea of them than 
any former accounts of their manners had fuggefted. 
This confidence, and manly behaviour, induced Governor 
PhilUp, who was highly pleafed with it, to give the 
place the name of Manly Cove. The fame people after- 
wards joined the party at the place where they had landed 
to dine. They were then armed, two of them with 
fhields and fwords, the reft with lances only. The 
fwords were made of wood, fmall in the gripe, and ap- 
parently lefs formidable than a good flick. One of thefe 
men had a kind of white clay rubbed upon the upper 
part of his face, fo as to have the appearance of a mafk. 
This ornament, if it can be called fuch, is not common 
among them, and is probably affumed only on particular 
occafions, or as a diftindtion to a few individuals. One 
woman had been feen on the rocks as the boats pafTed, 
with her face, neck and breafts thus painted, and to our 
people appeared the moft difgufting figure imaginable ; 
her own countrymen were perhaps delighted by the 
beauty of the effect. 
During the preparation for dinner the curiolity of 
thefe vifitors rendered them very troublefome, but an 
innocent contrivance altogether removed the inconve- 
nience. Governor Phillip drew a circle round the place 
%vhere the Englilh were, and without much difficulty 
^ made 
