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CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



The indolence of the men is so great, that it" a man gets 

 a few beads of different colours, he stops at home (while 

 his wife is in the field picking up wood, &c.), to string 

 them, placing the different colours in every kind of way 

 till they suit his fancy. 



They have songs on various subjects, love, war, palm 

 wine, &c. 



They have no other arms except knives and a few mus- 

 quets ; no shot, but small rounded stones : a piece of quartz 

 makes a good flint. They take fish by poisoning them 

 with a species of narcotic herb. They make good lines with 

 grass. 



They amuse themselves with a game which is played on a 

 piece of board, having twenty-eight circular hollows on its 

 surface ; but I could not learn the principles of the game. 



