thick coating of earth, leaving the yams to cook.
Several other roots they cooked and ate.

Raw they ate thistle tops, pigweed, and crowfoot, with great relish.

Their game they cooked as follows.

Kangaroo were first singed, cleaned out, and filled with hot stones, then put on the top of a burnt-down fire, hot ashes heaped all over them.

The blacks like their meats with the gravy in, very distinctly red gravy.