Immense numbers of fish, however, pass into these temporary reservoirs, which may thus be considered as a providential provision for the natives, whose food changes with the season.

At this period they subsisted on the barilla root, a species of rush which they pound and make into cakes, and some other vegetables; their greatest delicacy being the large caterpillar (laabka), producing the gum-tree moth, an insect they procure out of the ground at the foot of those trees, with long twigs like osiers, having a small hook at the end.

The twigs are sometimes from eight to ten feet long, so deep do these insects bury themselves in the ground.
Mr.Browne communicated with a tribe of natives, one of whom, a very tall woman, as well as her child, was of a copper colour.
From the information he gave me of the neighbourhood of Cawndilla, I determined, on the return of Mr.Poole, and in the event of his not having found a better position, to move to that place; for it was evident from his continued absence that he must have crossed the creek at a distance from the lake, and not seeing any grass in its neighbourhood, had pushed on to the hills.

I was now anxious for his return, for we had had almost ceaseless though not heavy rain since he left us.

On the 12th, the day he started, we had thunder; on the 13th it was showery, with wind at N.W., and the thermometer at 62 degrees at 3 P.M., and the barometer at 29.742; the boiling point of water being 211.25.
Assuming Sir Thomas Mitchell's data to be correct, my position here was in long.