233 .-- If it was only meant that they have no large nets for fishing, like the feine, as the New Zealanders have, the remark is certainly true.] The inhabitants of New South Wales have very few ornaments, except those which are impressed upon the skin itself, or laid on in the manner of paint.

The men keep their beards short, it is thought by scorching off the hair, and several of them at the first arrival of our people seemed to take great delight in being shaved.

They sometimes hang in their hair the teeth of dogs, and other animals, the claws of lobsters, and several small bones, which they fasten there by means of gum; but such ornaments have never been seen upon the women.

Though they have not made any attempt towards clothing themselves, they are by no means insensible of the cold, and appear very much to dislike the rain.

During a shower they have been observed to cover their heads with pieces of bark, and to shiver exceedingly.