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77.
Novr. 1769.   Opoorage

leaves and Earth   here we saw a woman who mournd after their fashion for a dead relation  she sat on the ground near the rest who (except one) seemd not at all to regard her   the tears constantly trickled down her cheeks   she repeated in a low but very mournfull voice words which we did not at all understand   still at every sentence cutting her arms or face or breast with a shell she held in her hand  so that she was almost coverd with blood  a most affecting spectacle  the cutts she made however were so managd as seldom to draw blood & when they did to peirce a very small way into the flesh  but this is not always the case with them  for many we have seen & some were among these very people who had shocking large scarrs on their arms  thighs  breasts  cheaks &c. which they told us had been done in this manner & upon this occasion  may be they proportion the depth of their cutts to the regard they have for the deceasd

10. This day was employd in an excursion to view the large river at the bottom of the bay which lay at some distance from it  the mouth of it provd to be a good harbour with water sufficient for our ship but scarce for a larger  the stream

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