Here I may mention that after having been on my way south for some months, I began to notice a total difference between the natives I met and my own people in the Cambridge Gulf district.

The tribes I was now encountering daily were inferior in physique, and had inferior war implements; I do not remember that they had any shields.
The blacks I had whistled and jigged before were, perhaps, the ugliest of all the aborigines I had met, which was saying a very great deal.

The men were very short, averaging little more than five feet, with low foreheads and hideously repulsive features.

I noticed, however, that the animals they had for food seemed very much fatter than similar creatures farther north.

One thing I was grateful to these people for was honey, which I urgently required for medicinal purposes.