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tually. They seemed to be occupied by the natives 

 only in the rainy season, as, from their appearance, 

 they had not been inhabited for some time. I 

 entered one of them throug'h a small arched opening- 

 of about twenty inches or two feet hig-h, and found 

 three or four nets, made with thin strips of cane, 

 about five feet long-, with an opening* of about eig'ht 

 inches in diameter at one end, getting- g-radually 

 smaller for about four feet, where there was a small 

 opening- into a larg-e round sort of basket. These 

 nets were laid by the natives in narrow channels to 

 catch fish, as well as in the tracks of small animals, 

 such as rats and bandicoots, for the purpose of 

 trapping them. There were also some pieces of 

 glass bottle in the hut, carefully wrapped in bark 

 and placed in a very neat basket, made in the shape 

 of a lady's reticule. The glass is used by the 

 natives in marking themselves : all of them being- 

 scarred on the arms and breast, while some were 

 marked on the cheeks and forehead. 



In the camp we thus discovered were small stone 

 ovens, similar to those we had found in the camp at 

 Rockingham Bay, as well as one a\ ith a large flat 

 stone raised six or eig-ht inches from the cTound, 

 and a fire-place of loose stones beneath. Near to 

 one of the tents was a large stone hollowed out in 

 the middle, and two or three round pebbles for 

 pounding dried seeds, &c. 



Oct. 1th and '^tli. — Flat sandy ground, with oc- 

 casional patches of scrub, composed of bushy 



