He mistook the sheep net for a fishing net, and gave them to understand that there were fish in those waters so large that they would not get through the meshes.

Being anxious to hear what he had to say I sent for him to my tent, and with Mr.Browne cross-questioned him.
It appeared quite clear to us that he was aware of the existence of large water somewhere or other to the northward and westward.

He pointed from W.N.W.round to the eastward of north, and explained that large waves higher than his head broke on the shore.

On my shewing him the fish figured in Sir Thomas Mitchell's work he knew only the cod.

Of the fish figured in Cuvier's works he gave specific names to those he recognised, as the hippocampus, the turtle, and several sea fish, as the chetodon, but all the others he included under one generic name, that of "guia," fish.
He put his hands very cautiously on the snakes, and withdrew them suddenly as if he expected they would bite him, and evinced great astonishment when he felt nothing but the soft paper.