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Botany Bay.

themselves from his hand when he offerd them in token either of extreme fear or disgust  the people were very old & grey headed  the children young  the hair of the man was bushy about his head  his beard long & rough  the womans was crop'd short round her head  they were very dark colourd but not black nor was their hair wooley  he stayd however with them but a very short time  for seing many canoes fishing at a small distance he feard that the people in them might observe him & come ashore to the assistance of the old people, who in all probability belongd to them. 17 Canoes came fishing near our people in the same manner as yesterday only stayd rather longer  emboldend a little I suppose by having yesterday met with no kind of molestation. myself in the afternoon ashore on the NW side of the bay  where we went a good way into the countrey which in this place is very sandy & resembles something our Moors in England as no trees grow upon it but every thing is coverd with a thin brush of plants about as high as the knees  the hills are low & rise one above another a long way into the countrey by a very gradual ascent  appearing in every respect 

 

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