Cook's Descriptions of Places, New Holland, page 87

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New Holland

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New Holland (continued)

I beleive they get but few, except at the Season they come a shore to lay. In short these people live wholy by fishing and hunting, but mostly by the former, for we never saw one Inch of Cultivated land in the whole Country, they know however the use of Taara and sometimes eat them We do not know that they Eat anything raw but roast _^^orof broil all they eat on slow small fires. Their Houses are mean small hovels not much bigger than an oven, made of peices of Sticks, Bark, Grass &C^a, and even these are seldom used but in the wet seasons for in the dry times we know that they as often sleep in the open air as any w_^^here ~~else~~ else. We have seen many of their Sleeping places where there has been only some branches, or peices of bark ris a foot from the ground on the Windward side

Their Canoes are as mean as can be conceived, especially to the southward where all we saw were made of one peice of the bark of Trees about 12 or 14 feet long, drawn or tied together at one end as I have before made mention, these Canoes will not carry

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