Everybody when ashore kept a look out for plants, birds, beasts, and insects.

In short, a keenness for investigation, an assiduity in observation, animated the whole ship's company, stimulated by the example of the commander, who never spared himself in his work, and interested himself in that of others.
As in a drama, "comic relief" was occasionally interposed amid more serious happenings.

The blacks were friendly, though occasionally shy and suspicious.

In one scene the mimicry that is a characteristic of the aboriginal was quaintly displayed.

The incident, full of colour and humour, is thus related by Flinders: "Our friends, the natives, continued to visit us; and an old man with several others being at the tents this morning, I ordered the party of marines on shore, to be exercised in their presence.