their heads a handkerchief and neck-cloth which he offered them. They, however, appeared terrified at the ſight of his hanger, which he ſhewed them how to uſe; nor were their fears quieted till he made them a preſent of it. He endeavoured in vain to perſuade them to come to the place where our ſhips lay at anchor: the ſavages walked away, following the ſame path in a direction oppoſite to that which led to the ſhore.
Some of our men having landed on the other ſide of the ſtrait, came to a large fire, round which eight ſavages, each of whom had a kangarou ſkin wrapped round his ſhoulders, ſat warming themſelves under the ſhelter of four fences againſt the wind. They immediately ran away as ſoon as they ſaw our people.
An old woman who had the care of their proviſions, which ſhe did not chooſe to leave behind her, was ſoon overtaken by ſome of the ſailors. She accepted with an air of ſatisfaction, an handkerchief that was given her, but was ſo terrified at the ſight of a hanger, which they preſented to her, that ſhe leapt down a precipice more than forty feet in height, and ran away amongſt the rocks, where they ſoon loſt ſight of her.
I do not know whether thoſe who related this adventure in a different manner, wiſhed to make themſelves merry at the expence of the reſt, when
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