*788. one day out Ihooting, lie found a very" young puppy,
belonging to the natives, eating part of a dead Kangaroos
He brought it to the camp, aud it thrives much. The dog*
in fhape, is rather fliort and well made ; has very fine hair
of the nature o f fur, and a lagacious look. When found,
though not more than a month old, he Ihowed fome fymp*
toms o f ferocity. It was a confiderable time before he
could be induced to eat any flelh that Was boiled, but he
would gorge it raw with great avidity. (See plate annexed)».
23d. The biackfmith’s fhop, which was built o f
common brufh wood, was burnt down. Very fortunately
for us, the bellows and the other tools were, through
the exertion of the people, faved. To effedfc this was no
eafy point, as, in the courfe o f three or four minutes;
the wood being very dry, every part of the fhop was in
flames.
29th. One o f the convi&s was met by feme of the
natives, who wounded him very feverely in the brcaft
and head with their fpears. They would undoubtedly
. have deftroyed him had he not plunged into the fea,
near which he happened to be, and by that means faved
himfelf. When he was brought to the holpital he was
very
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 j they are ten or twelve feet
lon g ; pointed, and fometimes barbed, with a piece of
the lame cane or the teeth of M L Thele they throw,
with the affiftanee of the fliort flick already mentioned,
which has a Ihell made faft to- the end o f k with the
yellow gum. With this: gum. they likewife faffen their
baTbs to their fpears and Mi-gigs.. The latter o f thefe
differ from the former by having four prongs, and being
always barbed; which is not generally the cafe with the
fpears. Their fpears, the only weaponthey are ever feen-
to have that may be confldered in any degree as dangerous,
. they throw thirty or forty yards with an unerring predfiom
When equipped for any exploit, they are alfe armed
with a Jhield made of the hark of a tree, with which
' they very dexteroufly ward off any thing thrown at them-
An humble kind o f feymitar; a bludgeon, or club,
about. twenty inches long, with :a large and pointed end 9
and