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July 1770.    Endeavours River

Close round their heads   it was of the same consistence with our hair  by no means wooly or curld like that of Negroes  their eyes were in many lively & their teeth even & good   of them they had compleat setts  by no means wanting two of their fore teeth as Dampiers new hollanders did   they were all of them clean limn'd  active & nimble. Cloaths they had none  not the least rag  those parts which nature willingly conceals being exposd to view compleatly uncoverd  yet when they stood still they would often or almost allways with their hand or something they held in it hide them in some measure at least  seemingly doing that as if by instinct  they Painted themselves with white & red  the first in lines & barrs on different Parts of their bodies  the other in large patches  their ornaments were few  necklaces prettyly enough made of shells  bracelets wore round the upper part of their arms  consisting of strings lapd round with other strings as what we Call gymp in England   a string no thicker than a packthread tied round their bodies which was sometimes made of human hair, & peice of Bark tied over their forehead, & the preposterous bone in their noses which I have before mentiond were

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