M ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October, 



The dogs of this country are of the jackal fpecies, and are of two 

 colours ; the one, red with fome white about it ; the other, quite black : 

 fome of them are very handfome. 



No. 2. — Reprefents the young men feated as before, The fir ft 

 figure in the plate is a flout robuft native, carrying on his moulders 

 a pat- ta-go- rang, or kangooroo, made of grafs ; the fecond is carrying a 

 load of brum wood. The other figures feated about, are fmging, and 

 beating time to the fleps of the two loaded men, who appeared as if 

 they were almoft unable to move under the weight of the burthen 

 which they carried on their moulders. Halting every now and then, 

 and limping, they at lad depofited their load at the feet of the young 

 men, and retired from the Yoo-lahng, as if they were exceffively fa- 

 tigued by what they had done. It mud be noticed, that the man who 

 carried the brum wood had thru ft one or two flowering fhrubs through 

 the feptum of the nofe. He exhibited an extraordinary appearance in 

 the fcene. 



By this offering of the dead kangooroo was meant the power that 

 was now given them of killing that animal \ the brum- wood might re» 

 pre Tent its haunt. 



No. 3,— The boys were left feated at the Yoo-lahng for about an 

 hour; during which the a.clors went down into a valley near the- 

 place, where they fitted themfelves with long tails made of grafs, which 

 they fattened to the hinder part of their girdles, inftead of the fword, 

 which was laid afide during the fcene. Being equipped, they put 

 thernfelves in motion as a herd of kangooroos, now jumping along, 

 then lying down and fcratching thernfelves, as thofe animals do when 

 balking in the fun. One man beat time to them with a club on a flneld 

 while two others, armed, attended them all the way, pretending to 

 {leal upon them unobferyed and fpear them. 



This was emblematical of one of their future exercifes, the hunting 

 of the kangooroo. 



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