NEW SOUTH WALES. 3/ 



be naked before us ; though when among the 

 natives they are indifferent in this respect. 



That even genuine love in all its native 

 purity has been discovered among them, the 

 reader will be convinced by the following little 

 narrative, which happened in the neighbourhood 

 of Paramatta, and I am well acquainted with 

 the young man, who belonged to a tribe near 

 Paramatta, he was about twenty three years old, 

 had two sisters, one about twenty and the other 

 only fourteen. One day when he returned from 

 hunting the kangaroo, his sisters did not meet 

 him as usual on his approach to the cave, so 

 imagining they were gone to procure water or 

 roots, he without going in, being fatigued, sat 

 down at the foot of a tree to wait their return. 

 The sun was now withdrawing itself, and the 

 dark mantle of night with rapid strides began 

 to cover the horizon ; now the vivid lightning 

 with its forked forms bespoke the impending 

 storm ; in a few moments the rain poured ra- 

 pidly clown and drove my hero from the foot of 

 the tree to his cave, but scarce had he reached 

 it before another flash of lightning shewed to 

 his distressed eyes the form of his youngest 

 sister bleeding on the ground ; troubled as he 

 was before at the warring of the elements, his 

 agony was now increased ten-fold; kneeling 

 down he endeavoured to make her rise; but 

 alass ! she was incapable of hearing him, for 

 she was senseless : discovering this he hastened 

 to procure, a little water, and as he washed her 

 face with it she returned to life. — "Oh ! my dear 



