VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
is far from abounding at the cold feafon of the year ; but, 
in the fummer, judging from the latter end of the laft, we 
have every reafon to conclude that the little bays and coves 
in the harbour are well ftored with them. The fifh 
caught here are, in general, excellent; but feveral of them, 
like the animals in Tome degree refembling the Kangaroo, 
partake of the properties of the fhark. The land, the grafs, 
the trees, the animals, the birds, and the fifh, in their 
different fpecies, approach by flrong lhades of fimilitude 
to each other. A certain likenefs runs through the whole. 
July 8th. A party of the natives came to the place 
where the Sirius's boat had been to haul the feine, and 
having beaten the crew, took from them by force a 
part of the filh which they had caught. It is a great 
misfortune to us that we cannot find proper wood in this 
place wherewith to build a boat; particularly as fifh is 
not only fo very plentiful in the fummer, but the only 
change from fait provifions which we can procure, there 
being neither wild nor domeftic animals fit for food. 
Here, where no other animal nourifhment is to be procured, 
the Kangaroo is confidered as a dainty ; but in any other 
country I am fure that fuch food would be thrown to 
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