Projecting, or overhanging rocks, caverns, hollows of trees, etc.etc., are also frequently made use of by the natives for lodging houses in cold or wet weather.

When hostile parties are supposed to be in the neighbourhood, the natives are very cautious in selecting secret and retired places to sleep.

They go up on the high grounds, back among scrubs, or encamp in the hollows of watercourses, or where there are dense bushes of polygonum, or close belts of reeds; the fires are very small on these occasions, and sometimes none are made; you may thus have a large body of natives encamped very near you without being conscious of it.

I have been taken by a native to a camp of about twenty people in a dense belt of reeds, which I had gone close by without being aware of their presence, although I could not have been more than three or four yards from some of them when I passed.
It has already been remarked, that where many natives meet together, the arrangements of their respective huts depends upon the direction they have come from.

In their natural state many customs and restrictions exist, which are often broken through, when they congregate in the neighbourhood of European settlements.
Such is the custom requiring all boys and uninitiated young men to sleep at some distance from the huts of the adults, and to remove altogether away in the morning as soon as daylight dawns, and the natives begin to move about.