PitKiiiJiHVl.Xt; UU.MAN VAl. 



eembles tho onldcii teetb*"^ i^en observed in 

 sbec]) aiitl otlirr IktIiiku'oiis fiiiiiiials.* 



The aborigiiu^s liiive a custom of pi'tiserving 

 human tat, I observed it among the Yas, Mur- 

 rumbidgeef md dth^ Mhes, They show it with 

 reluctance to Europtians. I couhl not asc£dt^U 

 the nirytivr with certaiiity. Somo Baid it as 

 a charm — others that it was used in the cure of 

 ffiseaaes ; that it is applied to the latter purpose 

 I hE^v% hsmtsg nmn it smearcid f)¥er oir 

 near the place at whicli a patient comphiiued of 

 paiji, or had received iujurv. The fat is not 

 taken from particular individuals, that from any 

 human body being considered equally eflicacious. 

 The abof}§^tce%^lm y^ng^ k^&^e &^arched, 

 beccHuing flattened as <hey advanae m ymn ;i* 



* On the surface of the tooth there is sometimes deposited 

 a substance tettaed miar ^ teetk It freqiientty 

 assumes a ycllinv et>h>Lir, with a sniootli surface, in the ox 

 ftfid the sheep, and has been ignarantiy considereil as gold 

 derived hma. ^iifto^e. ttnn iaeriiy t'pf^svfit^lhn'tt^ 

 the suhvii, ?)cr/tlins loiind it to consist of cmtliy phos- 

 phate, 7y,0; mucus not yet decoinposetl, 12.5; peculiar sSfc* 

 Unary itifltterr 1.0; mii! ^tdmsA matter, ^ttbte in ttiurbiae 



aciil, 7.'j:= 100.0 — A^k Phfl. vol. ii. p. m\,— Qw^i^Fh' 

 miug^n Phiiosophij uf Zaohujii^ vol. ii. p. 1G6. 

 f It is temarkcd (in a pamphlet of a iJbftrti^rtfl>TSCtive*'y 



tU Port Philil*, New South Wales, by Messrs. ni)\el and 

 Hatn«^ Sydttey. «vo. IBJii, undertaken \\\ 1824 atul 18^5,) 



