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twenty inches was the greatest length they had 

 as yet been taken in this river ; but, like the 

 "river cod," it increases more in breadth, in 

 proportion to its weight, than in length. The 

 colour of the Kupe was inclining to bronze ; the 

 ends of the scales being black, gave to the fish a 

 checkered appearance. 



Among the native inhabitants of the Yas dis- 

 trict was a pair of originals : the man was called 

 Daraga, and his lady the "beautiful Kitty of 

 Yas. " Neither of them had pretensions to beauty. 

 The lady had ornamented her delicate form (for 

 all the ladies are fond of adornments) with 

 two opossum tails, pendent in a graceful manner 

 from her greasy locks ; pieces of tobacco-pipe, 

 mingled with coloured beads, adorned her neck ; 

 an old, dirty, opossum-skin cloak was thrown over 

 the shoulders ; a bundle of indescribable rags 

 around the waist ; and a netbul or culy hanging 

 behind, (filled with a collection of " small deer," 

 and other eatables, that would baffle all attempts 

 at description,) completed the toilette of this 

 angelic creature. Of her features I shall only 

 say, they were not such as painters represent 

 those of Venus : her mouth, for instance, had a 

 striking resemblance to the gaping entrance of a 

 Wombat's burrow. The husband also had deco- 

 rated the locks of his cranium with opossum 



