In one of them a jaw bone was found not quite consumed, but in general they contained only ashes.

From the manner in which these ashes were disposed, it appeared that the body must have been laid at length, raised from the ground a few inches only, or just enough to admit a fire under it; and having been consumed in this posture, it must then have been covered lightly over with mould.

Fern is usually spread upon the surface, with a few stones, to keep it from being dispersed by the wind.

These graves have not been found in very great numbers, nor ever near their huts.
When the latest accounts arrived from Port Jackson, the natives still avoided all intercourse with our settlement, whether from dislike or from contempt is not perfectly clear: They think perhaps that we cannot teach them any thing of sufficient value to make them amends for our encroachments upon their fishing places.

They seem to be among themselves perfectly honest, and often leave their spears and other implements upon the beach, in full confidence of finding them untouched.