The country is flat and open, and its beautiful trees stand at such a distance from each other, that no one could hide amongst them.

But if we found no dwellings, we often discovered traces of the savages,--extinguished fires, remains of kangaroos and of fish, cocoa-nut shells, and even entire nuts, which we secured for ourselves; we remarked, also, footmarks on the sand.

We both wished anxiously to meet with a savage, that we might endeavour to make him comprehend, by signs, whom we were in search of, hoping that natural affection might have some influence even with these untaught creatures.
I was only fearful that my dress and the colour of my skin might terrify them.

In the mean time, Jack, with his usual rashness, had climbed to the summit of one of the tallest trees, and suddenly cried out, 'Fritz, prepare your signs, the savages are landing.

Oh! what black ugly creatures they are, and nearly naked! you ought to dress yourself like them, to make friends with them.