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OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



the murderer firft taking a fleeping infant from the arms of the father 

 whom he was about to deprive of exigence : the child he brought to 

 Sydney to be taken care of. 



Being themfelves fenfible of the danger they were in while afleep, 

 they eagerly fought to obtain puppies of the fpaniel and terrier breeds 

 from the fet tiers, which they confidered as invaluable guardians during 

 the night. 



Mode of Living. 



The natives on the fea-coaft,and who are the moil known, have little 

 other fupport than fifb Men, women, and children, are employed in 

 procuring them ; but the means ufed are different according to the fex 

 of the timer ; the men killing them with the fiz-gig, while the females 

 ufe the hook and line. The fiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint 

 in it, fattened by gum ; is from fifteen to twenty feet in length, and 

 armed with four barbed prongs ; the barb being a piece of bone fecured 

 by gum. , 



The lines ufed by the women are made by themfelves of the bark of 

 a fmall tree which they find in the neighbourhood. Their hooks are 

 made of the mother-of-pearl oyfter, which they rub on a ftone until it 

 affumes the fhape that they want. Though thefe hooks are not barbed, 

 they catch fifth with them with great facility. 



While fifhing, the women fing. In their canoes, they always carry 

 a fmall fire laid upon fea-weed or fand, with which, when defirous of 

 eating, they drefs their meal. 



The woods, exclufive of the animals which they occafionally find 

 in their neighbourhood, afford them but little fuftenance ; a few ber- 

 ries, the yam and fern-root, the flowers of the different bankfia, and at 

 times fome honey, make up the whole vegetable catalogue. 



The natives who live in the woods, and on the margins of rivers, 



are compelled to feek a different fubfiftence, and are driven to a harder 



exerdfe of their abilities to procure it ; one inftance of which has been 



given in the manner of their climbing the trees : they have, befides, 



a laborious method of enfnaring animals. 



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