WHITENS JOURNAL OF A 
with greafe, or fome {linking, oily fubftance ; fome wore 
a fmall ftick, or fi£h-bone, fixed crofs-ways, in the di- 
vifion of the nofe, which had a very ftrange appearance; 
others were painted in a variety of ways, and had their 
hair ornamented with the teeth of fifh, faftened on by 
gum, and the fkin of the kangaroo. As they condudled 
us to the water, a toadftool was picked up by one of 
our company, which fome of the natives perceiving, they 
made figns for us to throw it away, as not being good 
to eat. Soon after I gathered fome wood-forrel, which grew 
in our way, but none of them endeavoured to prevent me 
from eating it ; on the contrary, if a conclufion may be 
drawn from the figns which they made relative to the 
toadftool, they fhewed, by their looks, that there was nothing 
hurtful in it. 
We halted but a fhort time with them, as it was growing 
late, and we had a long way to walk. Before we parted 
from them, the, governor gave them two fmall hand- 
axes, in exchange for fome of their ftone axes and two 
of their fpears. As we afcended a hill, after our de- 
parture from them, eight of them followed us until we 
had nearly reached the top, where one of thofe who had 
been 
