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] pite from their toils and dangers. The Commander, anxious about their fate, ent a boat in the afternoon in quet of them, as he knew that whilt the wind remained o unfavourable, the long boat could not return to the hip without aitance. Towards cloe of evening, we had the atisfaction of eeing them return on board. They told us that having proceeded along the coat in a S.S.E. direction, they found by ome fires that the avages were near; that they had oon met with everal of them, who were the ame that had been een the day before, but that they did not uffer them to approach them. They found ome hell-fih broiling upon the fires which the avages had left with precipitation, and more than thirty kangarou kins which they found at a little ditance, hewed them to be very expert in hunting.

It appeared that they had made ue of the bread and water, which had been left for them on the preceding day; but the mell of the cheee had probably given them no inclination to tate it, as it was found in the ame condition in which it had been depoited. They found at the ame place one of the knives and handkerchiefs that had been left among the utenils of the natives.

Some hots that were fired at birds, probably terrified thee avages; for when ome of our men went