74 AHMOLEEN. 



humour, features generally good, but whose effect 

 was much injured by the lips, which, enclosing large 

 strong regular teeth of pearly whiteness, were too 

 full and heavy for a dehcate taste, neat and well- 

 made garments put on with judgment, small feet 

 and hands, and an open engaging manner, marked 

 my friend Yaneenga as one^of the best and worthiest 

 specimens of her tribe. I shall have much more to 

 say of her and her husband presently, so will now pass 

 to their son, Ah-mo-leen, of whom I recorded a trait 

 honourable to his character, on the occasion of pur- 

 chasing his coat at an early stage of our acquaintance. 

 Ahmoleen, now the eldest son, was only inferior 

 to his father in stature and size, and being much 

 younger was less unwieldy in figure ; in other respects 

 he greatly resembled Mooldooyah, was a little more 

 lively, and of course much more active ; but his good 

 temper and forbearing disposition were equally con- 

 spicuous, nor did he ever take undue advantage of 

 his great superiority of physical strength. I believe, 

 notwithstanding his inactivity, that Mooldooyah was 

 even now much more powerful than his son ; but 

 next to him Ahmoleen was chief in size and strength. 

 Mooldooyah often lamented to me, in moving terms, 

 the death of an elder son, who so greatly sm'passed 

 Ahmoleen in physical development, that, as he 



