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able. They had pretty good eyes ; and their teeth were 1777. 
tolerably even, but very dirty. Moll of them had their , ^ animiy ' 
hair and beards fmeared with a red ointment; and fome 
had their faces alfo painted with the fame compofition. 
They received every prefent we made to them, without 
the lead: appearance of fatisfaffion. When fome bread was 
given, as foon as they underftood that it was to be eaten, 
they either returned it, or threw it away, without even 
tailing it. They alfo refufed fome elephant filh, both raw 
and drelfed, which we offered to them. But upon giving 
fome birds to them, they did not return thefe, and ealily 
made us comprehend that they were fond of fuch food. I 
had brought two pigs alhore, with a view to leave them in 
the woods. The inftant thefe came within their reach, they 
feized them, as a dog would have done, by the ears, and 
were for carrying them off immediately ; with no other in¬ 
tention, as we could perceive, but to kill them. 
Being delirous of knowing the ufe of the Hick which one 
of our viliters carried in his hand, I made ligns to them to 
Ihew me; and fo far fucceeded, that one of them fet up a 
piece of wood as a mark, and threw at it, at the diftance of 
about twenty yards. But we had little reafon to commend 
his dexterity; for, after repeated trials, he was Hill very 
wide from the objedl. Omai, to Ihew them how much fu- 
perior our weapons were to theirs, then fired his mufquet 
at it; which alarmed them fo much, that notwithftanding 
all we could do or fay, they ran inftantly into the woods. 
One of them was fo frightened, that he let drop an axe and 
two knives, that had been given to him. From us, how¬ 
ever, they went to the place where fome of the Difcovery’s 
people were employed in taking water into their boat. The 
officer of that party, not knowing that they had paid us fo 
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