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the day, Tupia faw an animal, which, by his defcriplion, 
Mr. Banks judged to be a wolf : they alio faw three other 
animals, but could neither catch nor kill one of them, and a 
kind of bat, as large as a partridge, but this alfo eluded all 
their diligence and (kill. At night, they took up their lodg- 
ing clofe to the banks of the river, and made a fire, but the 
mufquitos fwarmed about them in fuch numbers, that their 
quarters were almoft untenable ; they followed them into the 
fmoke, and almofl into the fire, which, hot as the climate 
was, they could better endure than the flings of thefe infedls, 
which were an intolerable torment. The fire, the flies, and 
the want of a better bed than the ground, rendered the night 
extremely uncomfortable, fo that they pafled it not in 
Beep, but in reftlefs wifhes for the return of day. With the 
firfl dawn they fet out in fearch of game, and in a walk of ma- 
ny miles, they faw four animals of the fame kind, two of 
which Mr. Banks’s greyhound fairly chafed, but they threw 
him out at a great diflance, by leaping over the long thick 
grafs, which prevented his running : this animal was obferved 
not to run upon four legs, but to bound or hop forward upon 
two, like the Jcrbua, or Mus Jaculus. About noon, they re- 
turned to the boat, and again proceeded up the river, which 
was foon contracted into afrefh water brook, where, however, 
the tide rofe to a confiderable height : as evening approached, 
it became low water, and it was then fo fhallow that they were 
obliged to get out of the boat and drag her along, till they 
could find a place in which they might, with fome hope of reft, 
pafs the night. Such a place at length offered, and while they 
were getting the things cut of the boat, they obfcved a fmoke 
at the diflance of about a furlong: as they did not doubt but 
that fome of the natives, with whom they had fo long and 
earneftly defired to become perfonally acquainted, were about 
the fire, three of the party went immediately towards it, hope- 
ing that fo fmall a number would not put them to flight : 
when they came up to the place, however, they found it de- 
feated, and therefore they conjectured that before they had dis- 
covered the Indians, the Indians had difcovered them. They 
found the fire flill burning, in the hollow of an old tree that 
was become touch-wood, and feveral branches of trees newly 
broken down, with which children appeared to have been 
playing : they obferved alfo many foot-fteps upon the fand, 
below high water mark, which were certain indications that 
the Indians had been recently upon the fpot. Several houfes 
were found at a little diflance, and fome ovens dug in the 
ground, in the lame manner as thofe of Otaheite, in which 
viftuals appeared to have been dreffed fince the morning, and 
fcattered about them, lay fome fhells of a kind of clamm, and 
fome fragments of roots, the refufe Qf the weal. After regret- 
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