Whence can arise this superabundance of females?
Neither of the men had suffered the extraction of a front tooth.
We were eager to know whether or not this custom obtained among them.

But neither Colbee nor Boladeree would put the question for us; and on the contrary, showed every desire to wave the subject.

The uneasiness which they testified, whenever we renewed it, rather served to confirm a suspicion which we had long entertained, that this is a mark of subjection imposed by the tribe of Cameragal, (who are certainly the most powerful community in the country) on the weaker tribes around them.

Whether the women cut off a joint of one of the little fingers, like those on the sea coast, we had no opportunity of observing.

These are petty remarks.