Survey of the Intertropical And Western Coasts of Australia V1
Survey of the Intertropical And Western Coasts of Australia V1
King
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In exchange for this I offered him atomahawk, but his fears would not allow him to come near the boat toreceive it. Finding nothing could induce the old man to approach us asecond time, I threw it towards him, and upon his catching it the wholetribe began to shout and laugh in the most extravagant way. As soon asthey were quiet we made signs for the theodolite stand, which, for a longwhile, they would not understand; at one time they pretended to think byour pointing towards it, that we meant s...ome spears that were lying near atree, which they immediately removed: the stand was then taken up by oneof their women, and upon our pointing to her, they feigned to think thatshe was the object of our wishes, and immediately left a female standingup to her middle in the water and retired to some distance to await ourproceedings. On pulling towards the woman, who, by the way, could nothave been selected by them either for her youth or beauty, she frequentlyrepeated the words "Ven aca, Ven aca, " accompanied with an invitation toland; but, as we approached, she retired towards the shore; when suddenlytwo natives, who had slowly walked towards us, sprang into the water andmade towards the boat with surprising celerity, jumping at each stepentirely out of the sea, although it was so deep as to reach theirthighs.
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