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to the top^ and the floors were covered with long* 

 dried g-rass. 



The natives being* absent from the camp, I 

 entered the larg-e gunyali, and found in it a great 

 shield of sohd wood, two feet in diameter, convex on 

 one side, and flat on the other. The convex side 

 was cvu'iously painted red, in circular ring's and 

 crosses. On the flat side was a handle, cut out of 

 the solid wood. In the same hut I found four 

 wooden swords, three and a half feet long-, and four 

 inches broad, sharp at both edg-es, and thick in the 

 centre, with a slig'htly-curved, round handle, about 

 six inches long*. They were made of very hard 

 wood, and were much too heavy to wield with one 

 hnnd. I also found a number of fishing- lines, 

 made from g-rass, with hooks attached of various 

 sizes, made from mussel shells. 



After I had carefully examined all these thing-s 

 I left them where I found them. In the centre 

 of the camp were four larg-e ovens, for cooking- 

 their food. These ovens were constructed by dig-g-ing- 

 a hole in the ground, about three feet in diameter, 

 and two feet deep. The hole is then filled to within 

 six inches of the top with smooth, hard, loose, 

 stones, on which a fire is kindled, and kept burning- 

 till the stones are ^\'ell heated. Their food, consist- 

 ing- principally of shell and other fish, is then placed 

 on the stones and baked. 



There were no vessels in the camp in Avhich they 

 could boil anything-, and it is my opinion, from 



