APPENDIX. 
IMPLEMENTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
A A. is a War Spear, formed of a light reed-like fubftance 
produced by the Yellow Gum Tree, vide p. 235, which if the 
ends marked with the letters were joined together, would fliew its 
full length; the long pointed head is of hard wood, of a reddifh 
colour, and is faftened into the fhaft in the firmeft manner by 
a cement of the yellow gum only. 
B. is a Stick, at one end of which is a fmall peg faftened 
with the fame cement, and forming a hook : the other end is 
ornamented with the fhell of the Limpet or Patella, ftuck on with 
the gum ; and, thus conftrudled, it is ufed to throw the fpear — 
in this manner: The fhell end of the ftick being held in the 
right hand, and the fpear poifed in the left, the end of the hook 
at B. is inferted into a hollow at the foot of the fpear at D. and 
thus thrown with a force (imilar to that of a ftone from a fling : 
this is fliewn more particularly in a reduced figure at the upper 
part of the Plate, a. b, 
CC. is a Spear or Gig, of a fubftance fimilar to the former, for 
ftriking fifti in the water: the true length of which will be 
known 
