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222 ately fled, notwithtanding all the igns of amity which they made them, leaving their crabs and hell-fih broiling upon coals. Near this place they aw other fires and huts.

It appears that this pot is much frequented, as fourteen fire-places were dicovered.

One of thee avages, who was very tall and mucular, having left behind him a mall baket filled with pieces of flint, was bold enough to come quite near to Cretin in order to fetch it, with a look of aurance with which his bodily trength eemed to inpire him. Some of the avages were tark naked; the ret had the kin of a kangarou wrapped about their houlders. They were of a blackih colour, with long beards and curled hair.

The utenils which they left behind them conited of about thirty bakets made of ruhes, ome of which were filled with hell-fih and lobters, others with pieces of flint and fragments of the bark of a tree as oft as the bet tinder. Thee avages, undoubtedly, procure themelves fire by triking two pieces of flint together, in which they differ from the other inhabitants of the South Sea ilands, and even from thoe of the more eaterly part of New Holland; whence there is ground to believe that they are decended from a different origin. They