This was a singular instance, for in general they are observed on this coast to be much less cheerful than the men, and apparently under great awe and subjection.

They certainly are not treated with much tenderness, and it is thought that they are employed chiefly in the canoes, in which women have frequently been seen with very young children at the breast.

The lively young lady, when she joined the party the second day in her canoe, stood up and gave a song which was far from unpleasing.

The men very readily gave their assistance to the English in making a fire, and behaved in the most friendly manner.

In a bay where Governor Phillip and his company landed to draw the seine, a number of the natives again came to them.