But We Had Not The Opportunity To See Whether These,
As The Former, Wanted Two Of Their Fore-Teeth.
We saw a great many places where they had made fires, and where
there were commonly three or four boughs stuck up to windward of
them; for the wind, (which is the sea-breeze), in the day-time blows
always one way with them, and the land-breeze is but small.
By
their fire-places we should always find great heaps of fish-shells
of several sorts; and it is probable that these poor creatures here
lived chiefly on the shell-fish, as those I before described did on
small fish, which they caught in wires or holes in the sand at low
water. These gathered their shell-fish on the rocks at low water
but had no wires (that we saw), whereby to get any other sorts of
fish; as among the former I saw not any heaps of shells as here,
though I know they also gathered some shell-fish. The lances also
of those were such as these had; however, they being upon an island,
with their women and children, and all in our power, they did not
there use them against us, as here on the continent, where we saw
none but some of the men under head, who come out purposely to
observe us. We saw no houses at either place, and I believe they
have none, since the former people on the island had none, though
they had all their families with them.
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