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The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea

CHAPTER XI
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They found to the S.and S.E.clean bottom at 20 fathoms or less, where the ships might have anchored if the weather to be experienced had been known.

They saw a great number of people on the island, who came out to see and call to them.

They followed the boat without passing certain boundaries, and by this they supposed that there were partitions of property between the people not on good terms.
Among them there were two distinct colours.

While the natives were looking at each other and talking by signs, a man rushed down from behind some rocks.

He was well made, of a clear mulatto colour, the hairs of his beard and head brown and crisp, and rather long.


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