NEW SOUTH WALES, 
jfeemed evident by feveral marks, that the natives had ^ 
only fled at the approach of the Enghfh party, but fo 
effedtually did they conceal themfelves that not one was 
feen. 
The number of the natives in thefe inland parts muft, 
however, be very fmall. Whether thefe relide by 
choice where they muft encounter fo m.any difficulties? 
or whether they are driven from the fociety of thofe 
who inhabit the coail, has not yet been difcovered. 
The huts feen here confiil-pd of fingle pieces of bark, 
about eleven feet in length, and from four to fix in 
breadth, bent in the middle while freili from the tree, 
and fet up fo as to form an acute angle, not a little 
refembling cards fet up by children. In the plate in- 
ferted here, not only the huts, but fome of the fpears 
of the natives are introduced. It Vv^as conje6tured, that 
the chief ule of thefe imperfe6l firuilures might be^ 
to conceal them from the animals for which they 
mull: frequently be obliged to lie in Vv^ait. They 
may alfo afford ihelter from a lliower of rain to one 
or tvv'o who lit or lie under them. The bark of 
many trees was obferved to be cut into notches, as 
if for the purpofe of climbing ;. and in feveral there 
v/ere holes, apparently the retreat of fome animal, but 
enlarged by the natives for the purpofe of catching the 
inhabitant. The enlargement of thefe holes with their 
imperfeds:: 
