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strong string, wound round with a thick thread 

 made of hair, probably that of the opossum, and 

 looking just like worsted. The necklace worn by 

 the old lady was made of the yellow joints of some 

 kind of reed or thick grass, cut into lengths and 

 strung on a piece of twine, and twisted two or three 

 times round theneck. Someof the men, too, had bands 

 of string round the neck or waist, with knots and tas- 

 sels hanging down, and several had a band round the 

 head among the hair. Their baskets were made of 

 stout grass or rush, very neatly woven together, 

 round and bag-shaped, widening towards the bottom, 

 with a strong band round the mouth, from which was 

 a loose loop of string by which it was suspended round 

 the neck. This tribe was quite the most friendly 

 and communicative we had yet seen* on the coast. 



On their departure we strolled ashore again before 

 it got dark, and on the top of the ridge near us we 

 ~ame on what in Europe I should almost certainly 

 have set down as a ruined wall. This was a granite 

 dyke, running nearly N. and S. over the crest of 

 the ridge, and for nearly 100 yards it was four or 

 five feet above the surrounding ground and three 

 feet thick. It was jointed so regularly and com- 

 pletely, and by such numerous planes at nearly right 

 angles to each other, cutting it into blocks about a 

 foot square, as to assume the exact appearance of 

 old, rather rude masonry. It was broken down 

 here and there, and its whole appearance was so de- 

 ceptive, that Lieut. Ince, who was with me, declared 

 it must be a wall : an opinion to which, in any 



