COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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small sand flies, which annoyed us very much in 
the evenings. 
Besides the huts on the beach, which were 
merely strips of bark bent over to form a shelter 
from the sun, there were others on the top of the 
hill over the tents, of a larger and more sub- 
stantial construction ; no two, however, were 
built after the same fashion. One of them was 
thus erected Two walls of stones, piled one 
upon the other to the height of three feet, formed 
the two ends ; and saplings were laid across to 
support a covering of bark or dried grass: the 
front, which faced the east, was not closed ; but 
the back, which slanted from the roof to the 
ground, appeared to have been covered with 
bark like the roof. 
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Oct. 8. 
