When enough was gathered, the brush-yard was thrown on one side, and fire set to the grass, which was in full ear though yet green.

While the fire was burning, the blacks kept turning the grass with sticks all the time to knock the seeds out.
When this was done, and the fire burnt out, they gathered up the seed into a big opossum-skin rug, and carried it to the camp.
There, the next day, they made a round hole like a bucket, and a square hole close to it.

These they filled with grass seed.

One man trampled on the seed in the square hole to thresh it out with his feet; another man had a boonal, or stick, about a yard long, rounded at one end, and nearly a foot broad; with this he worked the grass in the round hole, and as he worked the husks flew away.
It took all one day to do this.

The next day they took the large bark wirrees, canoe-shaped vessels, which when big like these are called yubbil.