The men are much better looking than the women.
Both go perfectly naked, if I except the former, who wear nets over the loins and across the forehead, and bones through the cartilages of the nose.

Their chief food is fish, of which they have great supplies in the river; still they have their seasons for hunting their emus and kangaroos.
The nets they use for this purpose, as well as for fishing, are of great length, and are made upon large frames.

These people do not appear to have warlike habits nor do they take any pride in their arms, which differ little from those used by the inland tribes, and are assimilated to them as far as the materials will allow.

One powerful man, however, had a regular trident, for which Mr.Hume offered many things without success.
He plainly intimated to us that he had a use for it, but whether against an enemy or to secure prey, we could not understand.

I was most anxious to have ascertained if any religious ceremonies obtained among them, but the difficulty of making them comprehend our meaning was insurmountable; and to the same cause may be attributed the circumstance of my being unable to collect any satisfactory vocabulary of their language.