CHRIBTJIAS DAY, 



themsi'hcs perfectly h&ppg* Suvmil trihcs hail 

 formed their (-iK'mn[)iTieiit on and ahoiit tlu- Plain-, 

 for tJie uceasiuu; thrir Imts liad been speedily 

 erected, by collecting tjie branches of trees, and ly- 

 ^s^mm ^}[^isl(ei|^ of batrl£, m placed ^ i0 ^oitim 

 a shelter to wkfimrd ; the fire being intife m 

 front. Some appeared in 'Miative eoMtunn-/' 

 with an exti'a daub of red oclire, and the " bo- 

 loxnbine" round the Eead ; otliers wore tufts of 

 the yeJjD^w^ crest the wMte cockatoo, penditi^ 

 from their beards ; but there were some \\ ho a[)- 

 proximated to civilized society in dress, bt ing' 

 arrayed in shirt, trowsers, and haiidkercliief ; — 

 and when thus cleanly rig'g*ed out" in Euro- 

 pean En«ff$^ fteir pergonal appeatan^&e was 

 notiiB|a;^06Se«inf^ — not that I mean to say tihey 

 will bear away the palm For persoiinl beanty. 



Some of the ■" black fellers ' had merely a 

 jacket, other!? only a shirt : tiic garments, bow- 

 ei^er, Wft^e linerely put on fer the o«5cagion, to Jte 

 soon after laid aside, CDs tihey find clothing mate- 

 rially obstruct tbi'in wlien (Mipiocd in hunting or 

 other expeditions. The jnittingon the European 

 garments serves merely to gratify their vanity, 

 making tliem look like White feller," as they 

 express it. Having observed, to one wlio peti- 

 tioned me for a pair of ' ' inexpressibles," to look 



