The practice of betel chewing is not confined to the men, for the few women whom we had seen alongside the ship in Coral Haven, had their teeth blackened by it.
One of the natives seen today exhibited a remarkable case of malformation of the teeth.

The lower incisors were wanting, and the upper ones had coalesced and grown downwards and outwards, forming an irregular dark protruding mass which I at first took to be a quid of betel.

Another man with a diseased leg had lost one hand at the wrist, and the long shrivelled arm presented a curious appearance.
Several dogs were also seen close to, for the first time--they were wretched half-starved objects of various colours, but agreed in being long-bodied, short-legged, and prick-eared, with sharp snout and long tail, slightly bushy, but tapering to a point.

They do not bark, but have the long melancholy howl of the dingo or wild dog of Australia.
THEIR VILLAGE.

DESCRIPTION OF THEIR HUTS.
At length some of us found our way to the huts of the natives which were close at hand, and had thus an opportunity of examining one of them minutely, besides verifying what we had before seen only from a distance, and with the aid of the telescope.