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 COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 121 violent gestures  pressing invitations for our s&' return i but we Continued on our way, and dis- M,y s6 rearded all their solicitaons. They were evi* denfly very much disappo/.nted, since they ex- Peered to �some axes from us, or they made the same signs as the Lnxmore Head natives had done by repeatedly imitating the action of chopping. On the south shore there were some women and children, under the protection of two natives; whose voices were also loudly raised for our recal. 'The natives on our side were unarmed but two bundles of spears were detected, prepped up against a tree, close at hand. After some time they waded back to the shore, and slowly walked towards our wooding-place, where they, of course, found a chisel that had purposely been left for them upon the stump of a tree which had been felled by our woodlng-party. As soon as we crossed the bar we anchored, in order to obtain some lunar distances to fix the longitude of the port, as well as to bring up and complete the chart of this part of the coast. During the day, the natives remained at our woodlng-place, and set the bushes on fire, the smoke of which enveloped the horizon and the neighbouring coast. The names of Port Hurd and Mount Hurd

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