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seen at Rocking'ham Bay, most of the men being* 

 from five feet ten to six feet hig-h. The g-eneral 

 characteristics of the race were ditFerent from those 

 of the other aborig*ines I had ever seen, and I 

 imagined that they niig'ht be an admixture of the 

 Austrahan tribes and the Malays, or Murray Is- 

 landers. Some of them had larg-e bushy whiskers, 

 with no hair on their chins or upper lips, having- the 

 appearance of being* reg'ularly shaved. It would 

 be almost impossible for any class of men to excel 

 these fellows in the scheming- and versatile cunning- 

 with which they strove to disg-uise then* meditated 

 treachery. In fine weather I always had our fire- 

 arms standing- out for them to see, and once or 

 twice every nig-ht I fired off a pistol, to let them 

 know we were on the look-out by nig-ht as well as 

 by day. 



Dec, 28^^.— Niblett and Wall both died this 

 morning ; Niblett was quite dead when I g-ot up, 

 and Wall, thoug-h alive, was unable to speak ) they 

 Avere neither of them up the day previous. I had 

 been talking- with them both, endeavouring- to 

 encourag-e them to hope on to the last, but sickness, 

 privation, and fatig'ue had overcome them, and they 

 abandoned themselves to a calm and listless despair. 

 We had g-ot two pig-eons the day before, which in 

 the evening- were boiled and divided between us, as 

 well as the water they were boiled in. Niblett had 

 eaten his pig-eon, and drank the water, but Wall had 



