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said that barnacles will not eat or injure kakaralli. 
The trees grow tall and straight, but are too heavy 
to make spars. The inner bark of the white kakaralli 
is used by the Indians as a substitute for, and in 
preference to paper, for making their cigarettes, and 
is called " queeka." The average height of the tree 
is about 80 feet, and will square 16 inches free of sap. 
BUHOORADA is a large tree, common throughout 
the colony ; it has a large top with reddish-brown leaves. 
The wood is heavy and close-grained, but it is not 
well known and is little used. Its average height is 
ahout 75 feet, and it will square 20 inches free of sap. 
As I have already stated, no restrictions as re- 
gards size, the time of cutting, or the kind of trees to be 
cut, are placed on the licenced wood-cutter; and the 
aboriginal Indians who are allowed to cut timber from 
any part of the unoccupied Crown Lands, are restricted 
only as far as regards size, — they are not allowed to cut 
timber over twelve inches square. 
This latter restriction however is easily evaded, es- 
pecially so, as there is virtually no one to see it enforced. 
Indians^ as a rule, rarely cut timber over twelve inches 
square ; for they are unable to haul such heavy wood out 
of the forest. The half-breeds and squatters on the 
Crown Lands are the persons who do this ; and the ship- 
pers of the timber are the instigators of both, — supply- 
ing them with punts, chains and provisions while work- 
ing, and on some occasions with gangs of men to haul 
out and transport to the place of shipment the timber 
they have cut. Timber under twelve inches square is 
called framing timber, and of twelve inches and over, 
