A VOYAGE TO 
people to decide whether this referve proceeds from 
the fears of the women, or from the jealoufy of their 
hufbands, by whom they are evidently kept in great fub- 
ordination.- 
One of their modes of fidiing was now obferved : 
their iiooks are made of the nihae of a Ihell refembling 
mother of pearl. When a fiili which has taken the bait is 
fuppoied to be too ftrong to be landed with the line, the 
canoe is paddled to fliore, and while one man gently 
draws the filli along, another ftands prepared to Itrike 
it with a fpear : in this attempt they feldom fail. In 
the plate which reprefents this a£lion, the engraver has 
inadvertently left the bodies of the fi-^ures rather too 
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white ; in other refpeds it is very accurate. 
¥/hen the fouthern branch of Broken Bay was firfl 
viiited, the getting round the headland that feparates the 
branches, was attended with fome difficulty, on account of 
very heavy fqualls of v/ind, accompanied w ith rain. An 
attempt was made to land, where there proved not to be 
fufficient v/ater for the boat. During this tranfadion, an 
old man and a youth w^ere ftanding on the rocks where 
the boat was trying to approach. Having feen how 
much our men had laboured to get under land, they 
were very folicitous to point out the deepeif w^ater. 
Afterwards they brought fire, and feemed willing to 
render any fervice in their power. Two of the officers 
6 fufFered 
