VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
of Port yackfon to Broken Bay, in fome places from fifty 
to a hundred, in others to two hundred yards diftant from, 
the fea, the coaft indeed is very pleafant, and tolerably 
clear of wood ; the earth a kind of adhefive clay, covered 
with a thick and fhort four grafs. 
All along the fhore we met the natives, who feem to 
have no fixed refidence or abode; but, indifcriminately^ 
whenever they meet with a hut, or, what is miore common , 
a convenient excavation or hole in the rocks, take poffefTion 
of it for the time. In one of their huts, at Broken Bay y 
which was conftru6led of bark, and was one. of the beft 
I had ever met with, we faw two very well made nets, 
fome fiihing lines not inferior to the nets,, fome fpears, 
a ftone hatchet of a very fuperior make to what they 
tifually have^ together with two vehicles for carrying 
water, one of cork, the other made out of the knot of 
a large tree hollowed. In this hut there were two pieces 
of coarfe linen, which they muft have obtained from 
fome of our people, and every thing about it befpoke 
more comfort and convenience dian I had obferved in; 
any other. A little way from it we fell in v/ith a large- 
party of natives, whom we fuppofcd to be the proprietors ; 
they 
