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] They likewie left behind them everal kangarou kins and drinking veels.

The officers forbade the ailors to take away any of the utenils of the avages: they, however, elected two bakets, a kangarou kin, and a drinking veel of fucus, to carry to the Commander. The avages had no reaon to regret the los of thee utenils, as they left, in place of them, everal knives and handkerchiefs, with ome bicuit, cheee, and an earthen pot, perhaps too brittle, but certainly a very good ubtitute for that which had cot them o little labour to manufacture.

The avages, though they took very few of their utenils with them, dropped ome of them from time to time on their flight. Whether they might do this in order to be able to run the fater, or whether it was with a deign to amue the Europeans who followed them, I cannot tell.

A boat belonging to the Eperance had been to examine a creek ituated to the eatward, at the ditance of about 5,000 toies. They had met with one of the natives, who, notwithtanding all the igns of amity they made him, would not let them come within two hundred paces ditance of him. A fine rivulet dicharges itelf into the ea near the farthet extremity of the creek. The ituation of this creek, oppoite to an iland which helters