VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. j^, 
fevcral other varieties having been met with, which arc 1788. 
natives of Amboina and others of the Molucca Ijlands. ^^^''^ 
1 6th. Vv^e purfued our route weftward, proceeding many 
miles inland, without being able to trace, by a lingle veftige, 
that the natives had been recently in thofe parts. We faw, 
however, fome proofs of their ingenuity, in various figures 
cut on the fniooth furface of fome large ftones. They con- 
fifted chiefly of reprefentations of themfelves in different 
attitudes, of their canoes, of feveral forts of fifli and animals ; 
and, confidering the rudenefs of the inftruments with which 
the figures muft have been executed, they feemed to ex- 
hibit tolerably ftrong likenefies. On the ftones, where_.the 
natives had been thus exercifing their abilities in fculpture, 
were feveral weather-beaten fhells. * The country all around 
this place was rather high and rocky ; and the foil arid, 
parched, and inhofpitable. 
In the evening, after a long and fatiguing march, we fell 
in with the north-weft branch of Port Jackfon harbour. Here 
the two feamen, overcome with fatigue, and having their 
fhoes torn from their feet through the ruggednefs of the 
road along which we had travelled, could proceed no further. 
This circumftance induced the governor to confign them to 
the 
