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 134 suaVBl* 01 X 11qrrltollCAL 'am. pons, and laughed heartily whenever a bad and lke. m. carelessly,made spear was offered to us for sale: for the natives, finding we took every thi, were not very partic-r in the form or manufacture o the articles they brought to tin, He was 0ef- tainly the mot intelligent* flatire' of the whale tribe, ahd if we had remained longer, would .have a/rcled us much information of this part of. the country; for we were beaming more and more intelligibI& to each other ev/ry day: he fre- quently accompanied Mr. Cunningham in hist walks, and not only assisted him in carrying'his plants, but occasionally added to the specimens he was COllecting.' so. The next morning (80th), the anchors were Weighed, and the warps laid out, but from various delays 'e did not .reach a birth suffici- ently near the bar to make sail from, until the water had fallen too much to allow our passing it: the brig was therefore moored in the stream of the tide. At eight o'clock the natives' came down as Usual, and were much disappointed in finding thin brig moved from her fdnner place. After the ves. 'sel was secured, the launch and jolly boat were "seiit to the waterilag-plad inthe outer bay, here "the astern pa/tY {vere assembled With a bundle of spears, throwing.sticks, and knives, for barte.r.

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