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temtoi-y. The people of this tribe are generally small in 
stature, ill-formed, and their covLntenaiice are forbidding 
and disagreeable. The hair is generally coarse and bushy. 
The beards and whiskers of the Dien are thick and curly, 
while the entire body is often covered with short crisp 
hair, which about the breast and shoulders is eometimes 
so thick as to conceal the skin. The eyes are small, and 
what should be the white has a diill muddy appearance. 
Their aspect, altogether, is more forbidding than that of 
the Australian aborigines generally. Nor are their dis- 
positions of the most amiable description. They did not 
amalgamate with us so readily as the others, but this 
probably was in a great degree owing to the iuflueuce of 
the chiefs, who evidently regarded ns with considerable 
jealousy, as being likely to supersede the influence they 
possessed among their people. The occasional visits of 
their chiefs to the settlement %vere invariably attended by 
& series of petty thefts, undertaken not by the chiefs 
themselves, but at their instigation. Mimaloo, one of 
their principal chiefs, who was known at Haffles Bay by 
the name of ' One-eye,' was particularly obnoxious in 
this respect, and latterly he was forbidden to enter the 
settlement. This man was one of the most perfect 
savages I ever remember to have met. His gestures, 
when offended, were frantic in the extreme, and resembled 
those of a wild beast rather than of a human being. His 
henchman and bosom friend, Loka, was characterized by 
a gloomy ferocity, even more distasteful than the fitful 
fury of his savage chief. This man was lately entrapped 
find killed by the Macassars, at a port on the north coast. 
