The natives of the district do not appear to eat them, for I never could find a single shell at any of their encampments.

It is difficult to account for the taste or prejudice of the native, which guides him in his selection or rejection of particular kinds of food.

What is eaten readily by the natives in one part of Australia is left untouched by them in another, thus the oyster is eaten at Sydney, and I believe King George's Sound, but not at Streaky Bay.

The unio or freshwater muscle is eaten in great numbers by all the natives of New South Wales and South Australia; but Captain Grey found that a Perth native, who accompanied him on one of his expeditions, would not touch this kind of food even when almost starving.

Snakes are eaten by some tribes, but not by others; and so with many other kinds of food which they make use of.
About three o'clock, Mr.Scott arrived with the dray, after a long and harassing stage of twenty miles over a low, stony, and scrubby tract of country, between Mount Hall and Streaky Bay, and which extended beyond our track to the coast hummocks to the west.