Strange weapons, ornaments, and cloaks, were offered by the savages, as well as food and the dressed fibre of the native flax.

An axe worth ten shillings would buy three spars worth ten pounds in Sydney.

A tenpenny nail would purchase a large fish.

A musket and a little powder and lead were worth a ton of scraped flax.

Baskets of potatoes would be brought down and ranged on the sea-beach three deep.