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Natives of N. Holland. 
fcem’d thereby to defign the looking more 
terrible ; this his Painting adding very 
much to his natural Deformity ; for they 
all of them of the moft unpleafant Looks 
and the word Features of any People that 
ever I faw, tho’ I have feen great variety 
of Savages. Thefe N. Hollanders were 
probably the fame fort of People as thofe 
1 met with on this Coaft in my Voyage 
round the World ; [See Vol. I. p. 464, &c .2 
for the Place I then touch’d at was not a- 
hove 40 or 50 Leagues to the N. E. of this : 
And thefe were much the lame blinking 
Creatures (here being alfo abundance of 
the fame kind of Flelh-flies telzing them) 
and with the fame black Skins, and Hair 
frizlcd, tall and thin, &c. as thofe were : 
But we had not the opportunity to fee 
whether thefe, as the former, wanted two 
of their fore-Teeth. 
We faw a great many places where they 
had made Fires ; and where there were 
commonly 5 or 4 Boughs duck up to 
Windward of them ; for the Wind (which 
is the Sea-breeze) in the day-time blows 
always one way with them ; and the Land- 
breeze is but fmall. By their Fire-places 
we tbould always find great heaps of Fifh- 
ibells, of feueral forts ; and ’tis probable 
that thefe poor Creatures here lived chiefly 
on the Shell-fifb, as thofe I before defcrib’d 
d;d on fmall Fidi, which they caught in 
Wires 
