Observations upon the Inhabitants. 
the canoe, with all the four Indians, very loon returned to the 
Ihip, and came quite along-fide, without expreffing any fear 
or diftruft. We diftributed fome more prefents among them, 
and foon after they left us, and landed on the fame fide of the 
river where our people had gone alhore : every man carried in 
his hand two lances, and a Hick, which is ufed in throwing 
them, and advanced to the place where Tupia and the reft of 
our people were fitting ; Tupia foon prevailed upon them to 
lay down their arms, and come forward without them : he then 
made figns that they fhould fit down by him, with which they 
complied, and feemed to be under no apprehenfion or con- 
ftraint : feveral more of us then going afttore, they exprelfed 
fome jealoufy left we fhould get between them and their arms ; 
we took care however to fhew them that we had no fuch inten- 
tion, and having joined them, we made them fome more pre- 
fents, as a farther teftimony of our good-will, and our defire 
to obtain theirs. We continued together, with the utmoft 
cordiality, till dinner time, and then giving them to under- 
ftand that we were going to eat, we invited them, by figns, 
to go with us : this however they declined* and,as foon as we 
left them, they went away in their canoe. One of thefe men 
was fomewhat above the middle age, the other three were 
young ; they were in general of the common ftature, but their 
limbs v/ere remarkably fmall ; their fkin was of the colour oT 
wood foot, or what would be called a dark chocolate colour ; 
their hair was black, but not woolly ; it was fhort cropped, in 
fome lank, and in others curled. . Dampier fays, that the 
people whom he faw on the weftern coaft of this country, 
wanted two of their fore-teeth, but thefe had no fuch defedt ; 
fome part of their bodies had been painted red, and the upper 
lip and breaftof one of them was painted with ftreaks of white; 
which he called Carbanda ; their features were far from dis- 
agreeable, their eyes were lively, and their teeth even and 
white, their voices were foft and tuneable, and they repeated 
many words after us with great facility. In the night, Mr. 
Gore and the mafter returned with the long-boat, and brought 
one turtle and a few fhell-fifh. The yawl had been left upon 
the fhoal with fix men, to make a farther trial lor turtle. 
The next morning we had another vifit frcm four of the na- 
tives ; three of them had been with us before, but the fourth 
was a ftranger, whofe name, as we learnt fiom his companions, 
who introduced him. was Yaparico. This gentleman was 
diftinguifhed by an ornament of a very ftri king appearance; 
it was the bone of a bird, nearly as thick as a man’s finger, 
and five or fix inches long, which he had thruft into a hcle, 
made in the griftle that divides the ncftrils ; of this we had 
feen one inftance, and only one, in New Zealand ; but upon 
examination, we found that among all theie people this part 
