VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
very faint from the lofs of blood, which had flowed 
plentifully from his wounds. A piece of a broken fpear 
had entered through the fcalp and under his ear, fo that 
the extraction gave him great pain. Their fpears are 
made of a kind of cane which grows out of the tree that 
produces the yellow gum ; they are ten or twelve feet 
long ; pointed, and fometimes barbed, with a piece of 
the fame cane or the teeth of fifh. Thefe they throw, 
with the afllftance of the ihort flick already mentioned, 
which has a fliell made faft to the end of it with the 
yellow gum. With this gum they likewife faflen their 
barbs to their fpears and fifli-gigs. The latter of thefe 
difler from the former by having four prongs, and being 
always barbed; which is not generally the cafe with the 
fpears. Their fpears, the only weapon they are ever feen 
to have that may be confldered in any degree as dangerous, 
they throw thirty or forty yards with an unerring preciflon.. 
When eq;uipped for any exploit, they are alfo armed 
with a fliield made of the bark of a tree, with which 
they very dexteroufly ward off" any thing thrown at them.. 
An humble kind ©f feymitar; a bludgeon, or club,, 
about twenty inches long, with a large and pointed end 
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