The only resource at these times is to shew a musquet, and if the bare sight is not sufficient, to fire it over their heads, which has seldom failed of dispersing them hitherto, but how long the terror which it excites may continue is doubtful.
The canoes in which they fish are as despicable as their huts, being nothing more than a large piece of bark tied up at both ends with vines.
Their dexterous management of them, added to the swiftness with which they paddle, and the boldness that leads them several miles in the open sea, are, nevertheless, highly deserving of admiration.

A canoe is seldom seen without a fire in it, to dress the fish by, as soon as caught: fire they procure by attrition.
From their manner of disposing of those who die, which will be mentioned hereafter, as well as from every other observation, there seems no reason to suppose these people cannibals; nor do they ever eat animal substances in a raw state, unless pressed by extreme hunger, but indiscriminately broil them, and their vegetables, on a fire, which renders these last an innocent food, though in their raw state many of them are of a poisonous quality: as a poor convict who unguardedly eat of them experienced, by falling a sacrifice in twenty-four hours afterwards.

If bread be given to the Indians, they chew and spit it out again, seldom choosing to swallow it.

Salt beef and pork they like rather better, but spirits they never could be brought to taste a second time.
The only domestic animal they have is the dog, which in their language is called Dingo, and a good deal resembles the fox dog of England.

These animals are equally shy of us, and attached to the natives.