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 osgrs OF Augrl. 213' frightful rapidity and destructive. eect.. Having thus very soon. cleared aucient space' for our purple, a sail. was suspended between two trees, to shelter the people from the sun at .their work apon the boat', the. keel of wMch w laid the same evening. In the amoon, we discovered two streamlets near the' tent, from wMch we ob. rained our water, and wood was cat close to' the beach. Near the watering-place were some natives' bark-huts and gourds; and two or three baskets, made of the. leaf of the cabbage palm, were hanging on the branches of the surrounding bas The owners of these implements were not. seen,. but it was evident they were. near at hand, from the recent appearance of their traces; the bones of the kangaroo and scales of fish were strewed about their fire-places, and close by were ovens similar .to those of Goold Island. The following day Mr. Cunningham, being'in s. search of plants, fell in with a party of natives consisting of ten or twelve men; two of them car, tied each a bundle of spears and a throwing-stick: Mr. Cunningham endeavoured to persuade the � three foremost to approach, but they were alarmed at a dog that was with him; seeing this he sent away the only man who. accompanied him with .the animal, and at last enticed them to draw 'nean

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