VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
which I have feen among the American or Mufquito-fliore 
Indians ; who, in improvements of every kind, the Indians 
of this country are many centuries behind. The men 
had alfo with them fome new paddles, fpears, and fifli- 
gigs, which they had juft been making. They readily 
fliowed us the ufe of every thing they had with them. 
Indeed they always behave with an apparent civility when 
they fall in with men that are armed ; but when they meet 
perfons unarmed, they feldom fail to take every advantage 
of them. 
Thofe females who were arrived at the age of puberty 
did not wear a covering ; but all the female children and 
likewife the girls wore a flight kind of covering before 
them, made of the fur of the kangaroo, twifled into 
threads. While we went towards" the party of men that 
came out of the woods with the new canoe, all the women 
landed, and began to broil their fifli, of which they 
had a large quantity. There feemed to be no har- 
mony or hofpitality among them. However, the female 
to whom I paid the moft attention gave me, but not un- 
till I afked her for it, fome of the fifli which fhe was 
' ' eating. 
