I Found It Necessary, However, By This Time To Send Away
The Child, As Such A Close Connection Rather Alarmed
Him; and in this,
as the conclusion verified, I gave no offence to the old gentleman.
Indeed it was but
Putting ourselves on a par with them, as I had observed
from the first, that some youths of their own, though considerably older
than the one with us, were, kept back by the grown people.
Several more now came up, to whom, we made various presents, but our toys
seemed not to be regarded as very valuable; nor would they for a long time make
any returns to them, though before we parted, a large club, with a head
almost sufficient to fell an ox, was obtained in exchange for a looking-glass.
These people seemed at a loss to know (probably from our want of beards)
of what sex we were, which having understood, they burst into the most
immoderate fits of laughter, talking to each other at the same time
with such rapidity and vociferation as I had never before heard. After nearly
an hour's conversation by signs and gestures, they repeated several times
the word whurra, which signifies, begone, and walked away from us
to the head of the Bay.
The natives being departed, we set out to observe the country, which,
on inspection, rather disappointed our hopes, being invariably sandy
and unpromising for the purposes of cultivation, though the trees and grass
flourish in great luxuriancy.
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