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CHAP. IV.

The Range from Botany Bay to Trinity Bay; with a farther Account of the Country, its Inhabitants and Productions.

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CHAP. V.

Dangerous Situation of the Ship in her Course from Trinity Bay to Endeavour River.

CHAP. VI.

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Tranfactions while the Ship was refitting in Endeavour River: a Defcription of the adjacent Country, its Inbabitants, and Productions.

CHAP. VII.

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Departure from Endeavour River; a particular Defcription of the Harbour there, in which the Ship was refitted, the adjacent Country, and several Islands near the Coaft: the Range from Endeavour River to the Northern Extremity of the Country, and the Dangers of that Naviga

tion.

CHA P. VIII.

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Departure from New South Wales. A particular Defcription of the Country, its Products, and People. A Specimen of the Language; and fome Obfervations upon the Currents and Tides.

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CHA P. IX.

The Paffage from New South Wales to New Guinea; with an Account of what happened upon landing there.

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CHA P. I.

The Ceremonies of an Indian Funeral particularly defcribed: General Obfervations on the Subject: A Character found among the Indians, to which the Ancients paid great Veneration: A Robbery at the Fort, and its Confequences; with a Specimen of Indian Cookery,

and various Incidents.

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Monday 5.

N the 5th we kept his Majesty's birth-day; June 1769. for though it is the 4th, we were unwilling to celebrate it during the absence of the two parties who had been sent out to observe the Tranfit. We had feveral of the Indian Chiefs at our entertainment, who drank his Majesty's health by the name of Kihiargo, which was the nearest imitation they could produce of King George.

About this time died an old woman of fome rank, who was related to Tomio, which gave us an opportunity to see how they difpofed of the body, and confirmed us in our opinion that these people, contrary to the prefent custom of all other nations now known, never bury their dead. In the middle of a small fquare, neatly railed in with bamboo, the awning of a canoe was raised upon two pofts, and under this the VOL. II.

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