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INTRODUCTION. 
[Prior Discoveries, 
Cook. The most striking differences betwixt these people and those captain 
1777 ' Cook had seen on the east coast of New South Wales, were in 
their language, in having no canoes, and in the different texture 
of the hair : in those it was " naturally long and black, though it be 
" universally cropped short whilst in Adventure Bay, " it was as 
" woolly, as that of any native of Guinea."* In these particulars, as in 
some others, they agreed with Dampier's description of the people 
on the North-west Coast, who were without canoes, and had woolly 
hair. 
The following articles, to the conclusion of Part I. of this Section, 
are placed somewhat out of their chronological order, for the con- 
venience of classing together all the discoveries which had no con- 
nection with the British settlement in New South Wales. Those 
made in vessels from that settlement, or which may be considered as 
a consequence of its establishment, will compose Part II. in unin- 
terrupted order. 
Bligh. Captain William Bligh put into Adventure Bay with his Majesty's 
l788, ship Bounty in 1788, and with the Providence and Assistant in 1792 ; 
for the purpose of obtaining wood and water. These were procured 
with facility, as also plenty offish ; and many useful seeds and trees 
were planted. 
No discoveries being made here, beyond those of Furnaaux and 
Cook, the reader is referred to captain Bligh's Voyage to the South 
Seas, p. 45 to 54, for his observations on the country and inhabitants. 
There is, however, one remarkable circumstance recorded of these 
people, which is, that when presents wrapped up in paper were 
thrown to them, " they took the articles out, and placed them on 
" their heads ;" a ceremony which is similar to that recorded by 
Witsen, of the inhabitants on the east side of the Gulph of 
Carpentaria. 
* See Cook's Third Voyage, Vol. I. p. 93-117. 
