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COOK’S VOYAGE, 
flicking through both fhoulders : it appeared to have beeft 
ftruck a confiderable time, for the wound had perfedlly healed 
up over the weapon. 
Early in the morning of the 23d, I fent fome people into 
the country, to gather a fupply of the greens which have been 
before mentioned by the name of Indian Kale ; and one of 
them having ftraggied from the reft, fuddenly fell in with 
four Indians, three men and a boy, whom he did not fee till, by 
turning fhort in the wood, he found himfelf among them. 
' They had kindled a fire, and were broiling a bird of fome kind, 
and part of a Kanguroo, the remainder of which, and a cocka- 
too, hung at a little diftanee upon a tree : the man, being un- 
armed, was at f.rft greatly terrified ; but he had the prefence 
of mind not to run away, judging very rightly, that he was 
moft likely to incur danger by appearing to apprehend it ; on 
the contrary, he went and fat down by them, and, with an 
air of chearfulnefs and good humour, offered them his knife, 
the only thing he had about him which he thought would be 
acceptable to them ; they received it, and having handed it 
from one to the other, they gave it him again : he then made 
an offer to leave them ; but this they feemed not difpofed to 
permit : ftill however he diffembled his fears, and fat down 
again ; they confidered him with great attention and curicfity, 
particularly his clothes, and then felt his hands and face, and 
Satisfied themfelves that his body was of the fame texture with 
their own. The}'- treated him with the greateft civility, and 
having kept him about half an hour, they made figns that he 
might depart : he did not wait for a fecond difmifticn, but 
when he left them, not taking the direct way to the fhip, they 
came from their fire and directed him ; fo that they well knew 
whence he came. 
In the mean time, Mr. Banks, having made an excurftcn 
on the other fide of the river, to gather plants, found the 
greateft part of the cloth that had been given to the Indians, 
lying in a heap together, probably as ufelefs lumber, not w'orth 
carrying away ; and perhaps, if he had fought further, he 
might have found the other trinkets; for they feemed to fet 
very litt’e value upon any thing we had, except our turtle, 
which was a commodity that w-ewere leait able to fpare. 
The blowing weather, which prevented our attempt to get 
out to fea, ftill continuing, Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander w'ent 
again out on the 24th to fee whether any new plant could be 
picked up : they traverfed the w'oods all day without fuccefs ; 
but as "ftey were returning through a deep valley, the fides of 
which, though- almoft as perpendicular as a wall, were covered 
with trees and bufhes ; they found lying upon the ground feve- 
ral marking nuts, the Anacardium orieniale ; thefe put them 
upon a new fcent," and they made a moft diligent fearch after 
