But even this argument did not suffice to overcome the covetousness of some tribes, and I was then obliged to assure them confidentially that he was a relative of the Sun, and therefore if I parted with him he would bring all manner of most dreadful curses down upon his new owner or owners.

Whenever we went rambling I had to keep Bruno as near me as possible, because we sometimes came across natives whose first impulse, not knowing that he was a dog, was to spear him.
Without doubt the many cross-breeds between Bruno and the native dogs will yet be found by Australian explorers.
Our hut was about three-quarters of a mile away from the sea, and in the morning the very first thing the girls and I did was to go down to the beach arm-in-arm and have a delicious swim.
They very soon became expert swimmers, by the way, under my tuition.
Frequently I would go out spearing and netting fish, my principal captures being mullet.

We nearly always had fish of some sort for breakfast, including shell-fish; and we would send the women long distances for wild honey.

Water was the only liquid we drank at breakfast, and with it Yamba served a very appetising dish of lily-buds and roots.

We used to steam the wild rice--which I found growing almost everywhere, but never more than two feet high--in primitive ovens, which were merely adapted ants' nests.