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of the nofe was perforated, to receive an ornament of the farA^ 
kind : they had alfo holes in their ears, though nothing was 
then hanging to them, and had bracelets upon the upper part 
of their arms, made of plaited hair,- fo that, like the inhabi- 
tants of Terra del Fuego, they feem to be fond of ornament, 
though they are abfolutely without apparel ; and one of them, 
to whom I had given part of an old (hirt, inftead of chrowing 
it over any part of his body, tied it as a fillet round his head. 
They brought with them a fifh, which they gave us, as we 
fuppofed, in return for the fifli we had given them the day be- 
fore. They ieemed to be much pleafed, and in no hafte to 
leave us, but feeing feme of our gentlemen examine their ca- 
noe with great curiofityand attent.on. they were alarmed, and 
jumping immediately into it, paddled away without lppaking 
a word. 
.About two the next morning, the yawl, which had been' 
left upon the lhoal, returned with three turtles and a large 
dkeat. As it feemed now probable that this fifhery might be 
profecuted with advantage, I fent her cut again, after break - 
faft,' for a further fupply. Soon after, three Indians ventured 
down to T upia’s tent, and were fo well pleafed with their re- 
ception, that one of them went with the canoe to fetch two 
others whom we had never feen ; when he returned he intro- 
duced the ftrangers by name, a ceremony which, upon fuch 
iccaiiom, was never omitted. As they had received the fifti . 
that was thrown into their canoe, when they firfi approached the 
fhip, with fo much pleafure, fome filh was offered to them 
now, and we were greatly furprized to fee that it was received 
with the greateft indifference: they made figns, however, to 
fome of the people, that they fhould drefs it for them, which 
was immediately done, bn after eating a little of it, they threw 
the reft to Mr-. Banks’s dog. They (laid with us all the fore- 
noon, but would never venture above twenty yards from their 
canoe. We now perceived that the colour of their Ikin was not 
fo dark as it appeared, what we had taken for their com- 
plexion, being the effe&s of dirt and fmoke, in which, we 
imagined, they contrived to fleep, notwithftanding the heat of 
the climate, as the only means in their power to keep eft the 
mufquitos. Among other tilings that we had given them 
when we firft favv them, were fome medals, which he had 
hung round their necks by a riband ; and thefe ribands were 
fo changed by fmoke, that we could not eafily diftinguifh 
of what colour they had been : this incident led us more . ar- 
rowly to examine the colour of their (kin. While thefe people 
were with us, we faw two others on the point of land that lay 
on the oppofite fide of the river, at the diftance of about two 
hundred yards, and by our glaffes difeovered them to be a 
woman and a boy ; the woman* like the reft, being dark 
naked. 
