BV JAMBS KELLY. 17!) 



Ready for a Start, Killed and Skined Eleven Seals the 

 Women Employed Roasting a Large Number of Seals — 

 Flippers and Shoulders Ready to baki ov< r with them they 

 informed us that if W S Seals for the 



trouble tbev had been at in Catching them the Chief Tolo' 

 would not Let them Keep th m but if the Shoulder- and 

 B - they Might Keep them and do as 



they pleased with them so the Ladies were Determined to 

 have a good Stock of fresh bleat to take home with them 



22d January 1816 

 During this Day the Wind blew Strong from th • 

 Eastward and thick Weather, Killed and Skmed Eleven 

 Seals the Women Employed Roasting Seals shoulder- and 

 flipp 



23d January 1 3 

 firsl part of this Day fresh Brezes from the Southard 

 and fin W ather the Women Kill d fiv< 9 on the 



outer Rocks at Noon Loaded the Boat with S 



the Women and thair Roasted .Meat and 

 them over to the Mam on our arrival at (he Beach Tolo" 

 and all his Mol> Came Down they had a few Dead Kan 

 garoo and about fifty skins they W< re Verry Much p] 



the Boal Loaded with D Seals, we threw them 

 ■ ut of the Boal Tolo ordered them to be put in a Heap 

 on the Beach, he alsi 3i: W( a □ t<> take 



thair Roasted flippers and Shoulders into the Bush, I '• 

 thru fcold Tolo" thai we Should Start Tomorrow from the 

 Island and that we should now take oux 1. them 



at Which the Women all 1! Cry' in Fad the Whole 



Mob Seemed full of Sorrow that we Weri about to I. 

 them Tolo" then told Briggs not to go away until! they 

 Had a Dance, the Whole Mob about three Hundred in 

 Number formed a Line in thr< ■ Divisions the Men in one 

 the Women in one and the Children in one Tolobunganah 

 then gave the Signal to Commence the Dance and a 

 most Singular I . ih Womi □ I! gan in th 



ter with a Song Joining thair hands forming a Circle and 

 Dancing Round the Heap of Dead Seals then throwing 

 themselves Down on the Sand and puting themselves 

 into Most Singular attitudes Heating the Lower part of 

 thair Bodies with thair hand- and Kicking the Sand 

 Each other With thair feel the Men and Children 

 hing Verry Much Si . Enjoy the Sport the 



Women then all Sat Down, the Children had a Similar 

 m to the Woman and Sat Down the Men then Com- 

 menced a Sort of Sham fight with Spears and Waddies 

 then Dancing Round the heap of Dead Seals' and Sticking 



