VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
to be the daughter of the moft diilinguifhed amongft 
them. 
While the boats were preparing for our reception, an 
old woman, perfe6lly grey with age, folicited us very 
much for fome prefent ; and in order to make us comply, 
threw herfelf, before all her companions, into the moft 
indecent attitudes » 
The cockfwain of the boat informed us, that while he 
was waiting for our return, the day before, two parties of 
the natives met, and commenced hoftilities againft each 
other. The man thus defcribed the manner in which this 
encounter was carried on. A champion from each party, 
armed with a fpear and a fhield, preffed forwards be- 
fore the reft ; and, as foon as a favourable opportunity 
oftered (till which he advanced and retreated by turns), 
threw his fpear, and then retired ; when another imme- 
diately took his place, going through the fame manoeuvres ; 
and in this manner was the confli<fl carried on for more than 
two hours. The boats crew and two midftiipmen, who faw 
the whole of the proceeding, perceived that one of the 
natives walked off with a fpear in his fide. During the 
engagement, the women belonging to them, who ftood: 
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