Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 1.djvu/198

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138 8URVZ� 0?' 'r?m m"rmt??to?,?cxt. }sta Macassar, whe? ?e ?in?e ?ers m? ?em j?. ?d p?ch.?e their ?goes. At ?s ?e (1818) ?zz' ?e v?ue of ?e ?e? w? ? fo? ? ?y ? a ?ol'; so t?t if ?h v?sel r? wi? 1 ? pko? of ?e?g, her ?go ? ? wo? ? do?. ?sid? ?g, ?ey t?e-? ?ks' fin? ?d bi?' nest, ?e lair ?g worth a?ut 3?0 doH? ?e ?ol. ' ? i?o? me ?at ?em are sever? rivers u?n the ?t, but ?t ? p?? ?ter ?om ?em ?ey ?e gene?y at?k? by ?o "M?," wh? ?ey d? ? ?emus ?d hos?e, ? by whom they ? ?uenfiy d? fea?; for theIn?s aa?k ?em only wh? ?ey are ?pmpar?. Their sm? ? ?e ?quenfly s?len from ?em, w?ch ?un? for ?e one we ?pmr? from ?e ?fives ? Gobbum I?& A pe?etu? wa?am exi? betw?n ?em, ? �at it would be a diffi?t ma?er for us to p?re a friendly ?mm?i?tion ? a ?ple who ?not, of ?e, discfimina? ?tw?n us ?d ?e M?ys. I r?t? ? h? ?is, for o? fo? was ? sm? th? I f? we should, in ?r fut?e ?i? to ?e ?t, be ?uenfl ? at? ? ?rha? be under ?e n?sky of?nvinci?

  • The value of the trepang, in 1822, wa? much less; the price had

fallen to twenty-five dollars the