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300 Some account of New Holland
of the two people who opposd the Landing of our two boats full of men for near a quarter of an hour & were not to be drove away till serveral times wounded with small shot which we were obligd to do as at that time we suspected their Lances to be poisned from the quantity of gum which was about their points but upon every other occasion both there & every where else they behavd alike shunning us & giving up any part of the countrey which we landed upon at once & that they use stratagems in war we learnt by the instance in Sting-rays bay where our Surgeon with another man walking in the woods met 8 Indians they stood still but directed another who was up in a tree how & when he should throw a Lance at them which he did & on its not taking effect they all ran away as fast as possible [Margin note] Canoe Their Canoes were the only things in which we saw a manifest difference between the Southern & the Northern people those in the Southward were little better contrivd or executed than their Houses a peice of Bark tied together in Pleats at the ends & kept extended
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