When paddling with the hand they were apt to throw more or less water into the canoe, which, with a small calabash, they dexterously threw out by a backward motion of the other hand without turning their heads." At one end of their canoes he observed two or three wooden pins which he thought were designed to steady their fish-gigs or to receive the heads of their spears.
He tells how the sailors clipped their beards: "From observing the smoothness of our chins, they all expressed a desire to have theirs the same, which some of my people instantly set about, clipping them close with scissors.

Not seeing any of these people painted, I was desirous of knowing if they were addicted to it.

I accordingly got some red paint which as soon as one of them saw, he immediately made signs for me to rub his nose with it.

About our settlements they are often seen with their noses painted with a red gum.

They likewise form a circle nearly round their eyes with a whitish clay.