VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
We gave them fome bread, which they received with appa- 
rent pleafure, but did not eat any of it while in our prefence. 
We likewife prefented them with a looking-glafs, but 
this they received with indifference, and Teemed to hold 
in no kind of eftimation. I gave one of the women a 
pocket handkerchief, which fhe immediately tied round 
her head, and fhewed great fatisfadlion. She had a 
young child between her knees in the canoe, (the way in 
which they always carry their infants), for whom fhe 
folicited fomething, in the moft fuppliant tone of voice 
I ever heard. The only thing I had about me was a 
narrow flip of linen, which I gave her ; and trifling 
as it was, fhe appeared to be perfectly fatisfied with it, 
and bound it round the child's head. She would not 
cotme out of the canoe, though along-fide the rocks ; but 
the man quitted it, and fhewed us fome wild figs that 
grew near at hand. Such as were green and unripe he 
did not pull; but, after fome fearch, having found one 
that was tolerably ripe, he made me pluck it and put 
it into his mouth. He eat it with an apparent relilli, 
and fmacked iiis lips, after he had fwallowed it, to 
convince us how good it was. 
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