One in particular, Toonda, was a good-looking fellow, with sinews as tough as a rope.

It also appeared to me that they had a darker shade of colour than the natives of the Murray.
Nadbuck turned out to be a merry old man, and a perfect politician in his way, very fond of women and jimbuck (sheep), and exceedingly good-humoured with all.

He here brought Davenport a large quantity of the fruit of the Fusanus, of which he made an excellent jam, too good indeed to keep; but if we could have anticipated the disease by which we were afterwards attacked, its preservation would have been above all price.
The natives do not eat this fruit in any quantity, nor do I think that in its raw state it is wholesome.

They appeared to me tol ive chiefly on vegetables during the season of the year that we passed up the Murray, herbs and roots certainly constituted their principal food.
I had hoped that the weather would have cleared during the night, but in this I was disappointed.

On the 17th we had again continued rain until sunset, when the sky cleared to windward and the glass rose.