WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
the place where the body had been burnt in a large fire. 
This, in all likelihood, was Burn, who was carried ofF at 
the time Ayres was wounded, as he has not been heard 
of fince. 
The natives of this country, though their mode of fub- 
fifting feems to be fo very fcanty and precarious, are, I 
am convinced, not cannibals. One of their graves, which 
I faw opened, the only one I have met with, contained a, 
body which had evidently been burned, as fmall pieces of 
the bones lay in the bottom of it. The grave was neatly 
made, and well covered with earth and boughs of 
trees. 
The Pennantian Parrot (of which fee plate annexed) was 
about this time firfl: noticed. The general colour of the body, 
in the maky is crimfon ; the feathers of the back black in 
their middle ; the chin and throat blue ; the wings blue, with 
a bar of a paler colour down the middle of them ; the tail is 
long, and blue alfo, and all but the two middle feathers have 
the ends very pale. 
The female differs, in having the upper parts of the neck 
and body of a greenifh colour ; the top of the head red, 
and a patch of the fame under each eye ; the chin and 
throat 
