VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
towards the tip. The neck, breafl, belly, and fides are 
more or lefs ftreaked with white; over the eye is alfo a 
white ftreak, and the fides of the neck and beginning 
of the back have likewife fome ftreaks of the fame. The 
quills and tail feathers are marked with yellow on the outer 
margins ; the laft are rounded in fhape, and two or three 
of the outer feathers fpotted within, at the tip, with white; 
legs dulky; is about the fize of a nightingale^ and 
meafures feven inches in length. It is probably a non- 
defcript fpecies. 
A party of convidls, who had crofied the country to 
Botany Bay to gather a kind of plant refembling balm, 
which we found to be a good and pleafant vegetable, were 
met by a fuperior number of the natives, armed with fpears 
and clubs, who chafed them for two miles without being 
able to overtake them ; but if they had fucceeded in the 
purfuit, it is probable that they would have put them to 
-death; for wherever perfons unarmed, or inferior in num- 
bers, have fallen in with them, they have never failed to 
maltreat them. The natives had with them fome middling 
fized dogs, fomewhat refembling the fpecies called, in 
England, fox-dogs. A fervant of Captain Shea being 
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