Chap, xi.] 



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of the horizontally bedded sandstones, form numerous shelters 

 and low-roofed caves, along the creek banks. It was in these 

 caves or " gunyas," that the blacks used to camp, and in front 

 of all of them, a mass of shells slopes down towards the creek 

 just as at the Cape of Good Hope. 



I dug into one of the heaps ; places were found where fires 

 had been made, and there were numerous bits of burnt stick 

 and charcoal, a piece of Wallaby bone charred by the fire, and 

 the thigh bone of a Black woman. This latter was found with- 

 out any of the remaining bones of the skeleton, the woman 

 having been perhaps eaten piecemeal. These relics were buried 

 in a mass of cockle, oyster and mussel shells, mingled with 

 much black powdery matter composed of decayed shells, and 

 other debris. 



AUSTRALIAN NATIVE DRAWINGS. 



I Opossum ; 2 a fish ; 3 uncertain ; 4 a white man— drawn with charcoal, in caves, 

 Browera Creek. 5 figure of kangaroo, five feet in height— cut in a slab ot 

 stone — same locality. 



The walls and roofs of the caves are covered all over with 

 drawings executed by the blacks in charcoal on the rock. These 

 are interesting from their rude character, and sketches of them 

 are given in the accompanying woodcut. 



The row of four figures (i) evidently is intended to represent 



