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cabbage-net, which is made by laying threads loop within 

 loop, somewhat in the manner of knitting used by our ladies 

 to make purses. This bag the man carries loose upon his 

 back by a small string, which passes over his head ; it gene- 

 rally contains a lump or two of paint and resin, some fish- 

 hooks and lines, a shell or two, out of which their hooks 

 are made, a few points of darts, and their usual ornaments, 

 which includes the whole worldly treasure of the richest man 

 among them." 



A very similar inventory is given by Capt. Grey, who adds, 

 however, a flat stone to pound roots with.* They have also 

 stone hatchets, hammers, knives, pieces of flint, and sticks to 

 dig up roots. The hammer is used for killing seals or .other 

 animals, and for breaking open shell-fish. The handle is from 

 twelve to fifteen inches long, pointed at one end, and having 

 on each side at the other a hard stone attached to the handle 

 by a mass of gum. The knives (fig. 205, which represents 

 a specimen presented to me by A. W. Franks, Esq.) have a 

 similar handle, and at the end a few splinters of quartz or 

 flint, arranged in a row and fastened into a slit with gum in 

 the same manner. 



The natives of Botany Bay had fish-hooks, but no nets ; on 

 the contrary, Capt. Grey, in describing those of Western 

 Australia, mentions nets, but not hooks ; Eyre also states that 

 hooks were unknown in South Australia, while nets were used 

 in hunting and as bags ; Taplin says that the Narinyeri had 

 neither nets nor hooks; the natives of the North-west also, 

 according to Dampier, had "no instruments to catch great 

 fish." Those seen by King were also without hooks or nets.-f- 

 Throughout the continent they were ignorant both of slings 

 and bows and arrows. On the other hand, they had spears, 

 clubs (fig. 206), shields, and two very peculiar instruments, 

 namely, the thro wing-stick (fig. 207), and the boomerang (fig. 

 * 1. c. p. 266. t 1. c. vol. ii. p. 137. 



